Come, O come, my life's delight (Healey Willan)

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(Posted 2022-12-30) CPDL #72075:

Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-12-30). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 82 kB Copyright: Personal

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Title: Come, O come, my life's delight
Composer: Healey Willan
Lyricist: Thomas Campion
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1911
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Original text and translations

English text

Come, O come, my life’s 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.