22. Throw Out the Life-Line

Throw out the lifeline across the dark wave;

there is a brother whom someone should save;

Somebody’s brother! O who then will dare

to throw out the lifeline, his peril to share?

Throw out the life-line! Throw out the life-line!  Someone is drifting away; Someone is sinking today.

2.

Throw out the lifeline with hand quick and strong:

why do you tarry, why linger so long?

See! he is sinking, O hasten today

and out with the lifeboat! away, then away!

Throw out the life-line! Throw out the life-line!  Someone is drifting away; Someone is sinking today.

3.

Throw out the life line to danger fraught men,

sinking in anguish where you’ve never been;

Winds of temptation and billows of woe

will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow.

Throw out the life-line! Throw out the life-line!  Someone is drifting away; Someone is sinking today.

4.

Soon will the season of rescue be o’er,

soon will they drift to eternity’s shore;

Haste, then, my brother, no time for delay,

but throw out the lifeline and save them today.

Throw out the life-line! Throw out the life-line!  Someone is drifting away; Someone is sinking today.