Never Weather-Beaten Sail

The Sixteen are a United Kingdom-based choir and period instrument orchestra; founded by Harry Christophers, it started as an unnamed group of sixteen friends in 1977, giving their first billed concert in 1979.The group performs early English polyphony, works of the Renaissance, Baroque and early Classical music, and a diversity of 20th-century music. The Sixteen are "The Voices of Classic FM", TV media partner with Sky Arts and associate artists of the Southbank Centre in London and Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The group promotes an annual series at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as well as the Choral Pilgrimage, a tour of Britain's finest cathedrals: bringing music back to the buildings for which it was written. The BBC television series Sacred Music is produc… more »

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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,
Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more
Than my weary sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast.
Oh come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest.

Ever blooming are the joys of heav'n'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:
Oh come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my sprite to thee.

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Written by: GARETH TRESEDER, THOMAS CAMPION

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