"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

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

And the air still moves my curtain
As it used in times of yore...
Moonlight down the lane uncertain
Only you come nevermore

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

And the air still moves my curtain
As it used in times of yore...
Moonlight down the lane uncertain
Only you come nevermore