The boat is chafing at our long delay

The boat is chafing at our long delay,
And we must leave too soon
The spicy sea-pinks and the inborne spray,
The tawny sands, the moon.

Keep us, O Thetis, [in]1 our western flight!
Watch from thy pearly throne
Our vessel, plunging deeper into night
To reach a land unknown.

by John Davidson (1857-1909) , no title, from Plays, as part of "Scaramouch in Naxos", published 1889

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Arnold Atkinson Cooke (1906-2005) , "The boat song", 1956, published 1963 [soprano, horn, and piano], from Nocturnes, no. 5.
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "The boat is chafing", published 1938 [voice and piano], from A Second Volume of Ten Songs
by Anthony L. W. Scott (1911-) , "The boat is chafing", 1961. [TTB chorus and piano]
by Ronald Stevenson (1928-) , "The boat is chafing", 1974 [baritone and piano], from Songs of Quest, no. ?

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