Departure

<br>We part for ever from today <br>Farewell beloved one <br>And I, unto may death, your way <br>Will shun. <br><br>I care not now where you may go <br>You can no more bereave me <br>Today the sweetest girl I know <br>Does leave me. <br><br>[Chorus:]<br><br>And the air still moves my curtain <br>As it used in times of yore... <br>Moonlight down the lane uncertain <br>Only you come nevermore <br><br>Nor shall I as in former hours <br>Build spanish castles high <br>With star-lit windows, and with towers of sky, <br>When, shivering with bitter cold <br>Through winter nights uncertain <br>I watched lest you perhaps unfold <br>Your curtain. <br><br>O what delight to stroll with you <br>Beneath that flowering trees <br>When poured its light their branches through, <br>The moon. <br><br>[Repeat Chorus]<br><br>That I might catch with rapturous thrill <br>The words that you let fall <br>And that today I barely still <br>Recall. <br><br>How often did I secretly pray <br>Swift night her sails would furl <br>That we might thus forever stray <br>Fair girl. <br><br>[Repeat Chorus]