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]