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6. No doubt! The storm drove us seven miles away from safe harbor.

7. That was a fine trick on me after a long voyage, and so near our goal.

9. Captain!

10. - On board with you. How goes it? - All is well, Captain. We have firm moorings.

11. We're in Sandwike. I know the bay well.

12. Damnation! I had already seen my house on the shore!

13. I already imagined embracing my daughter Senta.

14. Then that blasting gale came from the depths of hell….

15. To rely upon wind is to rely on Satan's mercy!

16. What's the use? Have patience, the storm is weakening. So fierce a storm cannot last long.

17. Ho there, lads! You kept watch a long time. Go and rest now. There is nothing more to fear.

19. Steersman, will you take the watch for me? There's no danger, but it would be better if you kept watch.

20. Have no worries. Sleep soundly, Captain.

22. Through thunder and storms from distant seas, I am near you, my sweetheart.

23. Over towering southern waves, I am with you, my sweetheart.

24. My dear, if there were no south wind, I could never come to you again. Ah, southern wind, blow once again! My sweetheart asks for me!

26. On the southern shores of distant lands, I have thought of you.

27. Through thunder and sea from Moorish strands, I have brought something for you.

28. Praise the southern wind, my darling, I bring you a bracelet of gold.

29. Ah, southern wind, blow on! My sweetheart wants her trinket!

31. If there were no south wind…

33. The time has come, and seven years have passed once again!

34. The sea, fully sated, casts me from the ocean onto land.

35. Haughty ocean! Soon enough, you will bear me again.

36. Your defiance is changeable, yet my torment is eternal.

37. The salvation I seek on land, I shall never find it.

38. I remain faithful to you, waves of the seven seas, until the break of your final wave and your last waters run dry.

40. How often would I have plunged myself into the ocean's deepest maw, but death still eludes me!

41. I sailed my vessel there to the reefs, the fearsome graveyard of ships, but alas, my grave did not receive me!

42. I mockingly challenged pirates in fierce battle, longing for death.

43. I called out: "Here! Show your deeds! My ship is filled with treasure!"

44. But the barbarous sons of the ocean all crossed themselves and fled.

45. How often I would have plunged myself into the ocean's maw! I sailed my vessel to the graveyards of ships.

46. Never a grave! Never death! This is the dread sentence of damnation!

48. I ask you, blessed angel of God, who won the terms of my release… Was I the butt of your joke, as you showed me the way of salvation?

49. Vain hope! Dreadful, empty delusion! Eternal faithfulness on earth is over forever!

51. A single hope remains with me, and it shall stand unshaken, alone: As long as the earth sprouts new shoots, my last hope shall perish.

52. Day of Judgment! Day of doom! When will you dawn in my sight?

53. When will the trumpet sound, and crack the earth asunder?

54. Only when the dead arise, shall I pass on into the void.

55. Cease your course, planets in the sky! Eternal annihilation, engulf me!

57. Eternal annihilation, engulf us!

59. - Hey there, Steersman! - Nothing… beloved south wind blow, my sweetheart asks for me…

60. You see nothing? Keep up the good watch, lad. You only missed an entire ship coming in. How long were you asleep?

61. What the devil?! Forgive me, Captain.

63. Ahoy!

65. - They seem as idle as we are. - Answer! Ship and flag?

66. Let it be. I think I see the Captain.

67. Ahoy there, seaman! What is your name? What country?

69. I come from afar. In this stormy weather, would you deny me anchorage?

70. God forbid! A seaman knows the need for hospitality.

71. - Who are you? - A Dutchman.

72. God greet you. Then the storm also drove you to this rocky shore?

73. It went no better with me. My home is barely a few miles from here. I had almost reached it, when I had to turn away again.

74. Tell me, from whence do you come? Have you suffered any damage?

75. My ship is sturdy. It suffers no damage.