Never Weather-beaten Sail
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Difficulty
Easy
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Collections
Instrumental Only?
No
Description
Unison or Two-part (equal) choir and organ.
A setting of Thomas Campion's famous text by Victorian/Edwardian composer Charles Wood. Also available in the original SATB version.
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Lyrics
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,
never tired pilgrim limbs affected slumber more,
Than my weary spirit now longs to fly out of my troubled breast:
O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest!
Ever blooming are the joys of heav'n's high Paradise,
Old age deafs not there our ears nor vapour dims our eyes:
Glory there the sun outshines; whose beams the Blessèd only see:
O come quickly, come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my soul to Thee!