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@[fullmoon2000:35180] Thanks incredibly much for this interpretation of what may be one of the finest songs in the English canon. Long has it been a favorite of mine and my elder brothers, particularly the second eldest of our family who holds a PhD in drama and was a young hippie when this tune was originally conceived and recorded. Just recently I performed this composition along with my nephew on cello on the sad occasion of our father's passing. He was a navigator for the RCAF during the cold war, flying Avro Lancasters over the Northern Atlantic in search of Russian submarines. It's a long way to Australia and Japan from there, but he, as well as many fine mariners in centuries past who made that journey by sea, eventually found himself on that side of the great Pacific. I can only imagine that an ocean of tears have been cried by those who know the full import of this melody, these words and those celestial harmonies, having lost someone dear who navigated the vast unknown in quest of some great purpose, but never made it back home to tell the tale. I hope you don't mind that I paraphrased your words to introduce this song. I had my good brother David recite this short introduction (I could not do so, given that a swell of emotion had run me afloat). "A shipwreck in the treacherous waters off Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America, is not the end of the voyage for it's crew. Led on by their fearless captain their journey continues on into the afterlife and finally finds them on some heavenly shore: 'A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all'. Burning what remains of their mortal coil they here embrace the infinite, with only God as their witness." |
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