Thomas Campion. Awake, awake thou heavy sprite. (poem, song, air)

Two Bookes of Ayres:
The First Booke
XVI.
by Thomas Campion.

Awake, awake, thou heauy spright,
That sleep'st the deadly sleepe of sinne,
Rise now and walke the waies of light ;
'Tis not too late yet to begin.
Seeke heauun earely, seeke it late :
True faith still findes an open gate.

Get vp, get vp, thou leaden man :
Thy tracks to endlesse ioy or paine,
Yeelds but the modell of a span ;
Yet burnes out the lifes lampe in vaine. 10
One minute bounds thy bane, or blisse,
Then watch and labour, while time is.

Text source:
Campion, Thomas. Campion's Works. Percival Vivian, Ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 125.

Music:
"Awake, awake thou heavy sprite" by Campion, Thomas.
Sequenced by Harald Lillmeyer. Used with permission.

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