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]