# The boat is chafing at our long delay

- Music: Eleanor Everest Freer (died 1942)
- Words: John Davidson (died 1878)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6598624

## The words

The boat is chafing at our long delay,  
And we must leave too soon The spicy seapinks  
and the inborne spray,  
The tawny sands, the moon.  
Keep us, O Thetis, in our western flight!  
Watch from thy pearly throne Our vessel,  
plunging into night To reach a land unknown.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).