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Marci Meth & Anna Tilbrook - Sail on, sail on (Britten)

from The Wild Song by Marci Meth, Anna Tilbrook, Mychael Danna, Sir Simon Russell Beale

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folksong arrangement by Benjamin Britten
(The humming of the Ban) (from Volume 4, Moore's Irish Melodies)

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Sail on, sail on, thou fearless bark,
Wherever blows the welcome wind;
It cannot lead to scenes more dark,
More sad than those we leave behind.
Each smiling billow seems to say
“Tho’ death beneath our surface be,
Less cold we are, less false than they,
Whose smiling wreck’d thy hopes and thee!”

Sail on, sail on, through endless space,
Through calm, through tempest, stop no more;
The stormiest sea’s a resting place
To him who leaves such hearts on shore.
Or, if some desert land we meet,
Where never yet false-hearted men
Profaned a world, that else were sweet,
Then rest thee, bark, but not till then.

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from The Wild Song, released June 2, 2020

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Marci Meth Paris, France

Marci Meth is a soprano and creative. Her new album The Wild Song pays hommage to Benjamin Britten's relationship with Nature. It reminds us that we are part of something bigger and more beautiful than we can see, and that each of us has a responsibility to leave this world more beautiful than we found it. ... more

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