Titanic 'Hymn to the Sea' (1st Part)-Cover, Voice & Violin (Jacq)-Music (J.Horner)

(Notes: this cover was made in Montreal-Canada in the home of Clara J. Gregg, widow of Charles Melville Hays [1856-1912] railroad magnate). Already in London for a business trip and at the invitation of Bruce Ismay to join him on the RMS Titanic, Hays occupied a deluxe suite-cabin B69- but he and his son-in-law Thornton Davidson perished in the sinking, while their respective wives as well as his secretary and his maid survived. Hays was reported to have made a prophetic remark on the evening of the disaster; deploring the way the steamship lines were competing to win passengers with ever-faster vessels, he is said to have commented, "The time will come soon when this trend will be checked by some appalling disaster."
In 1912, before his only trip to America, the American admirers of the Master ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (1844-1921, son of the famous Prophet Bahá'u'lláh [1817-1892] of whom Tolstoy himself said: that 'He had the keys to the problems of humanity') had sent him thousands of dollars and begged him to ride the more modern and comfortable RMS Titanic. He declined and gave the money to charity. "I was asked to sail upon the Titanic", he later said, "but my heart did not prompt me to do so." Instead, 'Abdu'l-Bahá sailed on the modest SS Cedric and arrived in New York on April 11. On April 14, in Washington, he gave a talk in which he said: "For man two wings are necessary. One wing is physical power and material civilization; the other is spiritual power and divine civilization. With one wing only, flight is impossible." Later that same day, the Titanic struck an iceberg.
“Men imagine that the great size and strength of a ship, the perfection of machinery or the skill of a navigator will ensure safety, but these disasters sometimes take place that men may know that God is the real Protector. If it be the will of God to protect man, a little ship may escape destruction, whereas the greatest and most perfectly constructed vessel with the best and most skilful navigator may not survive a danger such as was present on the ocean.” (‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Promulgation of Universal Peace, April 1912. Washington, D.C.)