The Sea Angler Lyrics

The Sea Angler lyrics

There was a gentle angler who was angling in the sea
With heart as cold as
only heart untaught of love can be
When suddenly the waters rushed and
swelled and up there sprang
A humid maid of beauty's mold, and thus to him
she sang:

"Why dost thou strive so artfully to lure my brood
away
And leave them to die beneath the sun's all-scorching ray?
Couldst
thou but tell how happy are the fish that swim below?
Thou wouldst with me
taste of joy which earth can never know"

The water rushed, the
water swelled, and touched his naked feet
And fancy whispered to his heart,
it was a love pledge sweet
She sang another siren lie, more 'witching than
before
Half-pulled, half-plunging down he sank, and ne'er was heard of more.