Over the sea's green expanse and the ocean's plateaus,
Ships and captains, having conquered vast latitudes,
Dividing world's space into miles,
Dividing lifetimes into watches 1
Keep the course, based on freight, to port, port.
Sea, sea, bottomless world,
Frothing foam of coastal waves...
Over you like the sunrises dawn,
Over you like the sunrises dawn
The very hopes of our youth.
Sailor, from his very birth, is given two loves -
Love of land and sea.
He cannot live without either,
He is happy and proud of them.
Two loves - to land and sea,
They live within inseparably,
And the compass 2 between them - port, port...
Sea, sea, bottomless world,
Frothing foam of the coastal waves...
Over you like the sunrises dawn,
Over you like the sunrises dawn
The very hopes of our youth.
3x
1. vigils, look-outs 2. the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something
within the compass of the city walls
Synonyms of compass: border, borderline, boundary