Ejercicio de lectura (Exercise : Now o now I needs must part - John Dowland)

Now o now I needs must part - John Dowland

Lyrics 1

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;

Refrain

Sad despair doth drive me hence,

This despair unkindness sends,

If that parting be offence,

It is she which then offends.

Lyrics 2

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.

Refrain

Sad despair doth drive me hence,

This despair unkindness sends,

If that parting be offence,

It is she which then offends.

Lyrics 3

Dear if I do not return,

Love and I shall die together,

For my absence never mourn

Whom you might have joined 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.

Refrain

Sad despair doth drive me hence,

This despair unkindness sends,

If that parting be offence,

It is she which then offends.