We’re singing Campion at church this morning, and “Never Weather Beaten Sail” has always been one of those pieces that has the immediate effect of putting me in the right mood.
Julianne Baird is at her best in this Youtube clip:
Two Bookes of Ayres:
The First Booke
XI.
by Thomas Campion.
Neuer weather-beaten Saile more willing bent to shore,
Neuer tyred Pilgrims limbs affected slumber more,
Than my wearied spright now longs to flye out of my troubled
brest :
O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soule to rest.
Euer-blooming are the ioys of Heau’ns high paradice,
Cold age deafes not there our eares, nor vapour dims our eyes :
Glory there the Sun outshines, whose beames the blessed
onely see ;
O come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my spright to thee
