Submarines

The ships [destroy]1 us above
    And ensnare us beneath.
We arise, we lie down, and we
    In the belly of Death.

The ships have a thousand eyes
    To mark where we come . . .
But the mirth of a seaport dies
    When our blow gets home.

by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) , "Tin Fish", from Sea Warfare, in The Fringes of the Fleet, published 1915

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

by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) , "Submarines", 1917, published 1917 [four baritone voices and orchestra], from The Fringes of the Fleet, no. 3.

Date added to the website: 2009-02-05.

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