Departure Lyrics

Departure lyrics

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]