Far at Sea

DESCRIPTION: "Star of peace to wanderers weary! Bright the beams that smile on me! Cheer the pilot's vision dreary, Far, far at sea." The singer calls on the "star of hope," the "star of faith," and the "star divine" to guard the sailor from danger and temptation
AUTHOR: Jane Cross Simpson (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1830 (source: hymnary.org)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad sailor | star
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 122, "Star of Peace to wanderers weary" (1 fragment)
Roud #25529
NOTES [55 words]: Alice Kane's version of this repeats the last two lines of the verse, which does not seem to be standard practice. But the song is sung to multiple tunes, according to hymnary.org, and none of them so common as to be considered the "standard" tune, so this might be simply the way her family learned it, not folk processing. - RBW
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