Departure - Agathodaimon

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

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