Never weather-beaten sail (Thomas Campion)

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  • CPDL #13229: Icon_pdf.gif
Editor: Christoph Dalitz (added 2006-12-10).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 32 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Includes the original lute tablature part and uses the orthography from the original print
  • CPDL #7504: Network.png
Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (added 2004-07-03).   Score information: A4, 1 page   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: lute part omitted, piano reduction added
Editor: Steve Jones (added 2003-04-23).   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: lute part omitted
  • CPDL #617: Network.png
Editor: Laura Conrad (added 1999-12-07).   Copyright: GnuGPL
Edition notes: in partbook format.

General Information

Title: Never Weather-beaten Sail
Composer: Thomas Campion
Lyricist: Thomas Campion

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: Renaissance lute in G
Published: around 1619 (the original print bears no year)

Description: From "Two Bookes of Ayres" No. XI in the first book

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Original text and translations

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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.
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!