《Cruisers By Rudyard Kipling》歌词

[00:00:00] Cruisers By Rudyard Kipling - Ghizela Rowe

[00:00:03] Cruisers By Rudyard Kipling

[00:00:06] As our mother the Frigate

[00:00:08] Bepainted and fine

[00:00:09] Made play for her bully

[00:00:11] The Ship of the Line

[00:00:12] So we her bold daughters

[00:00:14] By iron and fire

[00:00:16] Accost and decoy to our masters' desire

[00:00:19] Now pray you consider

[00:00:21] What toils we endure

[00:00:23] Night-walking wet sea-lanes

[00:00:25] A guard and a lure

[00:00:27] Since half of our trade

[00:00:28] Is that same pretty sort

[00:00:30] As mettlesome wenches

[00:00:32] Do practise in port

[00:00:34] This is our office

[00:00:35] To spy and make room

[00:00:37] As hiding yet guiding the foe

[00:00:39] To their doom

[00:00:41] Surrounding confounding

[00:00:42] We bait and betray

[00:00:44] And tempt them to battle

[00:00:45] The seas width away

[00:00:47] The pot-bellied merchant

[00:00:49] Foreboding no wrong

[00:00:51] With headlight and sidelight

[00:00:52] He lieth along

[00:00:54] Till lightless and lightfoot

[00:00:55] And lurking leap we

[00:00:57] To force him discover

[00:00:59] His business by sea

[00:01:01] And when we have wakened

[00:01:03] The lust of a foe

[00:01:04] To draw him by flight

[00:01:06] Toward our bullies we go

[00:01:08] Till ware of strange smoke

[00:01:10] Stealing nearer he flies

[00:01:12] Ere our bullies close in

[00:01:14] For to make him good prize

[00:01:16] So when we have spied

[00:01:17] On the path of their host

[00:01:20] One flieth to carry

[00:01:21] That word to the coast

[00:01:23] And lest by false doublings

[00:01:25] They turn and go free

[00:01:27] One lieth behind them to follow and see

[00:01:30] Anon we return being gathered again

[00:01:33] Across the sad valleys

[00:01:35] All drabbled with rain

[00:01:37] Across the grey ridges

[00:01:38] All crisped and curled

[00:01:40] To join the long dance

[00:01:41] Round the curve of the world

[00:01:45] The bitter salt spindrift

[00:01:47] The sun-glare likewise

[00:01:49] The moon-track a-tremble

[00:01:50] Bewilders our eyes

[00:01:52] Where linking and lifting

[00:01:54] Our sisters we hail

[00:01:56] Twixt wrench of cross-surges

[00:01:58] Or plunge of head-gale

[00:02:00] As maidens awaiting

[00:02:02] The bride to come forth

[00:02:04] Make play with light jestings

[00:02:05] And wit of no worth

[00:02:08] So widdershins circling

[00:02:09] The bride-bed of death

[00:02:11] Each fleereth her neighbour

[00:02:12] And signeth and saith

[00:02:14] What see ye Their signals

[00:02:16] Or levin afar

[00:02:18] What hear ye God's thunder

[00:02:20] Or guns of our war

[00:02:22] What mark ye Their smoke

[00:02:23] Or the cloud-rack outblown

[00:02:26] What chase ye Their lights

[00:02:27] Or the Daystar low down

[00:02:30] So times past all number

[00:02:32] Deceived by false shows

[00:02:34] Deceiving we cumber the

[00:02:36] Road of our foes

[00:02:38] For this is our virtue

[00:02:39] To track and betray

[00:02:41] Preparing great battles

[00:02:43] A sea's width away

[00:02:46] Now peace is at end

[00:02:48] And our peoples take heart

[00:02:50] For the laws are clean gone

[00:02:52] That restrained our art

[00:02:54] Up and down the near headlands

[00:02:55] And against the far wind

[00:02:58] We are loosed

[00:02:59] O be swift

[00:03:00] To the work of our kind