1998


Sea Chest

Composed by John Musto
Text by Carl Sandburg

Dove Sta Amore Song Collection


"Sea Chest" is the second song of John Musto's song cycle Dove Sta Amore, setting the poetry of various American poets.

Text

Sea Chest
by Carl Sandburg

There was a woman loved a man
as the man loved the sea.
Her thoughts of him were the same
as his thoughts of the sea.
They made an old sea chest for their belongings together.

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