“Far the horizon
Hove to the wind;
We're sailing the sea
To the Edge of the World.”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
Genius; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 88.
“Far the horizon
Hove to the wind;
We're sailing the sea
To the Edge of the World.”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
Mon beau navire ô ma mémoire
Avons-nous assez navigué
Dans une onde mauvaise à boire
Avons-nous assez divagué
De la belle aube au triste soir
"La Chanson du Mal-Aimé" (Song of the Poorly Loved), line 51; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 95.
Alcools (1912)
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 11, Section IV, p. 130
John Masefield (1878–1967) English poet and writer
The first line is often misquoted as "I must go down to the seas again." and this is the wording used in the song setting by John Ireland. I disagree with this last point. The poet himself was recorded reading this and he definitely says "seas". The first line should read, 'I must down ...' not, 'I must go down ...' The original version of 1902 reads 'I must down to the seas again'. In later versions, the author inserted the word 'go'.
Source: https://poemanalysis.com/sea-fever-john-masefield-poem-analysis/
Salt-Water Ballads (1902), "Sea-Fever"
Kenneth Gärdestad (1948–2018) Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer
Sol, vind och vatten är
Det bästa som jag vet
Men det är på dig jag
Tänker I hemlighet
Sol, vind och vatten
Höga berg och djupa hav
Det, är mina drömmar vävda av
"Sol, vind och vatten", lyrics written by Kenneth
Song lyrics, With Ted Gärdestad, Ted (1973)