So she pulled away on the rolling sea

[teenybuffalo]

Tomorrow I move from Mountain House.  I'm sitting on the stairs procrastinating with my laptop.  I've lived here for one year as of June 1, but I've spent so much time traveling or away during daylight that it doesn't feel nearly that long.  I'd say "I'll miss the place," but the fact is I expect to be too busy even to think about it.  The place

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[ladymondegreen]

A song about another famed lighthouse-keeping, sailor-rescuing supergirl, Grace Darling. (Note the song comes with a writer attribution, but that's false--it's traditional, and older than the Lamplighters, who recorded this version.)

There's also the Canadian Angel of Long Point by Tanglefoot, based on real events.

[teenybuffalo]

That's a good 'un! I might try and learn it, even.

And what a beautiful icon you've got!

[ladymondegreen]

I like that one a lot. It makes me think of an idea from Jewish mythology of a land beyond a river we can't cross called the Sambatyon which only rages six days a week. On the seventh it rests, but no one ventures out across the calm waters, because it is the sabbath. I spent a lot of time as a child working out what the proper solution to this problem might be.

[teenybuffalo]

And now I'm the one trying to work it out. It's worse than the fox, the geese, and the sack of corn. Hm.

break the sabbath
try it on a raging day and probably die
get a cleric to bring Moses back from the dead to part the Sambatyon
dig under it, a la the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
build a bridge

But I bet there are specific objections to those last two solutions as well. The river is on solid bedrock and the banks are too wide for bridge-building, stuff like that.

O woe betide you, Annan Water!
Tonight you are a gloomy river!
But over you I'll build a bridge
That ye no more true love may sever.

And possibly Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood stand dressed in living green...