In Darkness Let Me Dwell - Die Verbannten Kinder Evas

Sorrow, stay!

Lend true repentant tears

To a woeful wretched wight

Hence, despair with thy tormenting fears

0 do not my poor heart affright

In darkness let me dwell

The ground shall sorrow be;

The roof despair to bar

All cheerful light from me:

The walls of marble black

That moistened still shall weep;

My music hellish jarring sounds

To banish friendly sleep

(Thus wedded to my woes

And bedded to my tomb

Oh let me living, living die

Till death do come)