Healey Willan gives a stunning setting of Thomas Campion's poem: "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight."
Come, O come, my lifes delight,
Let me not in languor pine!
Love loves no delay; thy sight,
The more enjoyed, the more divine:
O come, and take from me
The pain of being deprived of thee!
Thou all sweetness dost enclose,
Like a little world of bliss.
Beauty guards thy looks: the rose
In them pure and eternal is.
Come, then, and make thy flight
As swift to me, as heavenly light.
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to promote the legacy of the Dean of Canadian Composers-Healey Willan.
Composed for SSATB choir (a capella).