A Turn from a Tar

This evening I've been asked to bring a turn to a Burns Night supper on a boat in Springfield Marina. The following was written by Myles on October 28th, 1917 and set to Father Dourney at St. Bede's Church in South Shields.

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Stella Maris - A Sailor's hymn

Myles Toale

AB

When sombre shades of nightmare falling

Falling oer the troubled sea

When the gale with strength increasing

Strikes my bark with fiendish glee

When the storm clouds fast are flying

And in darkness must we steer

Then to guide us Stella Maris

Let thy light shine bright and clear

Stella Maris, Stella Maris

Guiding light from realms of bliss

When night shades spread oer the sea

Stella Maris shine for me

On through the night and all its perils

Sails my bark unto its goal

Oer monstrous seas that would engulf us

Past the reef and shifting shoal

Safe on we sail O sweet Protectress

For our prayers are not in vain

There in the sky shines Stella Maris

Until the light of day again

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Stella Maris

Guiding light from realms of bliss

When night shades

Spread oer the sea

Stella Maris

Shine for me

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P.S. For all poverty of rhyme metre and spelling in poetic effort please make the allowance due to the not sufficiently educated.

Father Dourney

St. Bede Church

South Shields

England

Oct 28^th

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