The Lightning Leaps from the Sky

    The wind blows high and the sky hangs low,

    Tall ships are swallowed as the billows roll,

    The storm rears back with a bended bow,

    The lightning leaps from the sky.

    Thunder roars o’er sea and coast,

    Bright light flickers like a fleeting ghost,

    Aye, ‘tis when we can see the most,

    The lightning leaps from the sky.

    The light’s gone out on the beacon tall,

    The keel cuts jagged ‘neath a leaking hull,

    The masts all groan in the wailing squall,

    The lightning leaps from the sky.

    The rocks like dirks stabbing sea and sky,

    Like hungry teeth in the stormy tide,

    ‘Tis doomed ships’ hulls that they love to bite,

    The lightning leaps from the sky.

    The brine foams bitter on the sea waves cold

    That break with violence on the sea cliffs old,

    Many a soul would the sea enfold,

    The lightning leaps from the sky.

    Doleful wraiths drift beneath the waves

    Bemoaning death o’er watery graves,

    How the heart for deliverance craves,

    The lightning leaps from the sky.

    The raindrops’ lash cutting to the bone,

    Ice-flesh burning from the salty foam,

    Course is lost and a-lost is home,

    The Lightning leaps from the sky.