The Army and Navy Hymnal/Hymns/Safe Home in Port

by Joseph of Thessalonica, tr. John Mason Neale(Safe Home by Arthur S. Sullivan)

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Safe Home in Port

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Translated by J. M. Neale

A. S. Sullivan

1. Safe home, safe home in port!
   Rent cord - age, shat tered deck,
   Torn sails, pro - vis - ions short,
   And on - ly not a wreck :
   But, O the joy up - on the shore,
   To tell our voy - age per - ils o'er,
   
2. The prize, the prize se - cure!
   The wrest - ler near - ly fell;
   Bare all he could en - dure,
   And bare not al - ways well :
   But he may smile at troub - les gone
   Who sets the vie - tor - gar - land on !
   
3. No more the foe "can harm!
   No more of leag uered camp,
   And cry of night a - larm,
   And need of read - y lamp:
   And yet how near - ly had he failed
   How near - ly had that foe pre-vailed !
   
4. The ex. - ile is at home!
   O nights and days of tears!
   O long -ings not to roam!
   O sins and doubts and fears!
   What mat -ters now grief 's dark-est day,
   When God has wiped all tears a -way!
   A - men..