This is a beautiful song by Allister MacGillivray. I'm thinking specifically about the SATB choral arrangement by the composer.
As a lullaby, this song improves the restfulness and ease of all sleep in Doug's AoE. This "improved rest" effect also applies to vehicles and machinery at rest, automagically performing minor regular maintenance. But vehicles under this effect, especially small working boats, will "talk" to Doug "in their sleep", allowing him to learn about what happened on or around them since the last time they were in harbour (or equivalent, for non-watercraft vehicles).
Quote:Small craft in a harbour that's still and serene
Give no indication what their ways have been.
They rock at their moorings all nestled in dreams,
Away from the roll of the sea.
Their stern lines are groaning a lullaby air,
A ghost in the cuddy, a gull on the spar,
But never they whisper of journeys afar,
Away from the roll of the sea.
Oh, had they the tongues for to speak,
What tales of adventure they'd weave.
But now they are anchored to sleep,
And slumber alee.
Come fair winds to wake them tomorrow, we pray;
Come harvest aplenty to them every day,
'Til guided by harbour lights they're home to stay,
Away from the roll of the sea.
Oh, had they the tongues for to speak,
What tales of adventure they'd weave.
But now they are anchored to sleep,
And slumber alee.
Come fair winds to wake them tomorrow, we pray;
Come harvest aplenty to them every day,
'Til guided by harbour lights they're home to stay,
Away from the roll of the sea.
Away from the roll of the sea.
As a lullaby, this song improves the restfulness and ease of all sleep in Doug's AoE. This "improved rest" effect also applies to vehicles and machinery at rest, automagically performing minor regular maintenance. But vehicles under this effect, especially small working boats, will "talk" to Doug "in their sleep", allowing him to learn about what happened on or around them since the last time they were in harbour (or equivalent, for non-watercraft vehicles).