Now, O Now I Needs Must Part - Simone Kermes
Written by:John Dowland
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 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 live had and death true
Sad despair doth drive me hence
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence
It is he which then offends
Sad despair doth drive me hence
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence
It is he which then offends