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What are the wild waves saying?

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The Readings Library has two copies of this text:

  • Library item number 90205

  • Library item number 92515

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Type of text:  song

Publication date:  1849

Lyricist:  CARPENTER, Joseph E.  (1813-1885)

Composer:  GLOVER, Stephen  (1813-1870)

Main language:  English

Notes:  The song is based on an incident in Dickens' Dombey and Son

Related texts (only those already in the Library are shown):

  – contained in Short lantern readings: no. 26, pp. 16-18