We’re very impressed by this delightful performance of Roger Quilter’s Weep You No More, Sad Fountains, by Joanna Swadling.

Lyrics

by Unidentified Author (16th century)

Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven’s sun doth gently waste!
But my sun’s heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lies sleeping,
Softly now, softly lies sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets;
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at even* he sets?
Rest you, then, rest, sad eyes!
Melt not in weeping,
While she lies sleeping,
Softly now, softly lies sleeping.

*evening

Sing it yourself

Find the piano accompaniment track
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (high) (original)
Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (low)