Departure

We part for ever from today
farewell beloved one
and i, unto may death, your way
will shun.
I care not now where you may go
you can no more bereave me
today the sweetest girl i know
does leave me.
[chorus:]
And the air still moves my curtain
as it used in times of yore...
moonlight down the lane uncertain
only you come nevermore
Nor shall i as in former hours
build spanish castles high
with star-lit windows, and with towers of sky,
when, shivering with bitter cold
through winter nights uncertain
i watched lest you perhaps unfold
your curtain.
O what delight to stroll with you
beneath that flowering trees
when poured its light their branches through,
the moon.
[repeat chorus]
That i might catch with rapturous thrill
the words that you let fall
and that today i barely still
recall.
How often did i secretly pray
swift night her sails would furl
that we might thus forever stray
fair girl.
[repeat chorus]