![Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part - Rolf Lislevand, Marianne Hirsti, Джон Доуленд](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284757089363925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 31.10.2000
Record label: Grappa Musikkforlag A, S Records
Song language: English
Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part |
Now, o now, I needs must part |
Parting though I absent mourn |
Absence can no joy impart |
Joy once fled cannot return |
While I live I needs must love |
Love lives not when hope is gone |
Now at last despair doth prove |
Love divided loveth none |
Sad despair doth drive me hence |
This despair unkindness sends |
If that parting be offence |
It is she which then offends |
Dear, when I from thee am gone |
Gone are all my joys at once |
I loved thee and thee alone |
In whose love I joyed once |
And although your sight I leave |
Sight wherein my joys do lie |
Till that death do sense bereave |
Never shall affection die |
Sad despair doth drive me hence |
This despair unkindness sends |
If that parting be offence |
It is she which then offends |
Dear, if I do not return |
Love and I shall die together |
For my absence never mourn |
Whom you might have joyed ever |
Part we must though now I die |
Die I do to part with you |
Him Despair doth cause to lie |
Who both lived and dieth true |
Sad despair doth drive me hence |
This despair unkindness sends |
If that parting be offence |
It is she which then offends |