Title: Never Weather-Beaten Sail
Music: Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Text: Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
Free at Art Song Central (PDF files):
- Campion – Never Weather-Beaten Sail (Low)
- Key: Really E♭ Major, though the key signature is four flats
- Arranged for voice and piano by Granville Bantock
- Range: B♭3 – C5
- Source: One Hundred Songs of England
- Campion – Never Weather-Beaten Sail (High)
- Key: Really G Major
- Arranged for voice and piano by Granville Bantock
- Range: D4 – E5
- Source: One Hundred Songs of England
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- Choral Version with Lute Tabulature
- Key: G Major
- Range: D4 – E5 (melody)
- Source: Choral Public Domain Library
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,
Never tired pilgrim’s limbs affected slumber more,
Than my wearied sprite 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 heaven’s high Paradise, 5
Cold age deafs not there our ears nor vapour dims our eyes:
Glory there the sun outshines; whose beams the blessed only see.
O come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my sprite to Thee!
