Cast By The Sea

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Commentary: Cast By The Sea

The long, tragic history of humanity, estranged from it’s Creator, has been a sordid travesty of continuing injustice and oppression.

This peculiar little song is an abstraction of such a people: It could be refugees fleeing Roman tyranny, Australian Aborigines fleeing the sportsman’s gun, early Irishmen under the oppressor’s heal – their harps rent and burned… or American Indians forcibly re-settled in lands strange and forbidding to them. Such ones find themselves unwanted - pressed to the shores of their beloved homelands, burrowing into the earth, longing for some place hide.

Is there no pity for the orphaned?


- Alan Kim Cochran