DIE VERBANNTEN KINDER EVAS LYRICS

1. Intro

2. Brief Even As Bright

The flower that smiles today
Tomorrow dies
All that we wish to stay
It temps and then it flies

What's the world's delight?
And what's the world's delight?
I search for lightning that just mocks the night
Brief even as bright

Virtue how frail it is
Friendship too rare
Love sells poor bliss
For proud despair
But though soon they fall
We survive all the joy and all
Which ours we call
Which ours we call

What's the world's delight?
And what's the world's delight?
I search for lightning that just mocks the night
Brief even as bright

Yet the calm hours creep
And yet the calm hours creep so slowly
So dream thou from thy sleep
Then wake to weep

Virtue how frail it is
Friendship too rare
Love sells poor bliss
For proud despair
But though soon they fall
We survive all the joy and all
Which ours we call
Which ours we call

Virtue how frail it is
Friendship too rare
Love sells poor bliss
For proud despair
But though soon they fall
We survive all the joy and all
Which ours we call
Which ours we call

Virtue how frail it is
Friendship too rare
Love sells poor bliss
For proud despair

3. On A Faded Violet

The colour from the flower's gone,
Which like sweet eyes smiled on me
The odour from the flower's flown,
Which breathed of only thee

A withered, lifeless, vacant form,
It lies on my abandoned breast
And mocks the heart which yet is warm
With cold and silent rest

I weep, my tears revive it not
I sigh, it breathes no more on me
Its mute and uncomplaining lot
Is such as mine, mine should be

The colour from the flower's gone,
Which like sweet eyes smiled on me
The odour from the flower's flown,
Which breathed of only thee

A withered, lifeless, vacant form,
It lies on my abandoned breast
And mocks the heart which yet is warm
With cold and silent rest

I weep, my tears revive it not
I sigh, it breathes no more on me
Its mute and uncomplaining lot
Is such as mine, mine should be

4. Overpast

That time is dead for ever child
Drowned, frozen, dead for ever
We look on the past and stare aghast
Spectres wailing pale and ghast

The stream we gazed on then rolled by
Its waves return, return not
And we, yes we stand in a lone land
Like the tombs to mark memory

That time is dead for ever child
Drowned, frozen, dead for ever
We look on the past and stare aghast
Spectres wailing pale and ghast

The stream we gazed on then rolled by
Its waves return, return not
And we, yes we stand in a lone land
Like the tombs to mark memory

5. Cease Sorrows Now

Cease sorrows now
For you have done the deed
Lo, care hath consumed carcass quite

No hope is left
Nor his help here that can stand instead
For death doth cut oft pleasure quite

Cease sorrows now
For you have done the deed
Lo, care hath consumed carcass quite

No hope is left
Nor his help here that can stand instead
For death doth cut oft pleasure quite

Would my conceit
That first enforced
That first enforced my woe
Or else mine eyes which
Which still the same increase

Might be extinct
To end my sorrows so
Which now are
As nothing can release

Would my conceit
That first enforced
That first enforced my woe
Or else mine eyes which
Which still the same increase

Might be extinct
To end my sorrows so
Which now are
As nothing can release

Cease sorrows now
For you have done the deed
Lo, care hath consumed carcass quite

No hope is left
Nor his help here that can stand instead
For death doth cut oft pleasure quite

6. In Darkness Let Me Dwell

Sorrow, stay! Lend true repentant tears
To a woeful wretched wight
Hence, despair with thy tormenting fears
O 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
Moistened still
Moistened still shall weep
Music jarring sounds
To banish sleep
To banish friendly sleep

Sorrow, stay! Lend true repentant tears
To a woeful wretched wight
Hence, despair with thy tormenting fears
O 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
Moistened still
Moistened still shall weep
Music jarring sounds
To banish sleep
To banish friendly sleep

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
Moistened still
Moistened still shall weep
Music jarring sounds
To banish sleep
To banish friendly sleep

7. Shall I Strive?

Shall I strive with words to move
When deeds receive
Receive not due regard?

Shall I speak and neither please
Nor be heard?
Nor be freely heard?

Grief, alas, though all in vain
Her anguish must reveal
She alone my wound shall know
Though she will not heal

Shall I strive with words to move
When deeds receive
Receive not due regard?

Shall I speak and neither please
Nor be heard?
Nor be freely heard?

Grief, alas, though all in vain
Her anguish must reveal
She alone my wound shall know
Though she will not heal

All woes have end though while delayed
Our patience
Our patience proving hard
O see that hour's strange effects
Could but make her loving me

Storms calm at last, and why may not
She leave off
She leave off her frowning mouth?
O see that hour's strange effects
Could but make her
Could but make her loving me

Storms calm at last, and why may not
She leave off
She leave off her frowning mouth?
O see that hour's strange effects
Could but make her
Could but make her loving me

8. Arise From Dreams Of Thee

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night
When the winds are breathing low
And the stars are shining
And the stars are shining bright

The nightingale's complaint
It dies upon her heart
I must die on thine
O, beloved as thou art

The nightingale's complaint
It dies upon her heart
I must die on thine
O, beloved as thou art

My cheek is cold and white, alas
My heart beats loud and fast
Press it close to thine again
Where it break at last
Where it will break at last

9. From Silent Night

Go nightly cares, to rest,
Go nightly cares, the foe to rest.
Forbear awhile to vex my sprite,
Forbear awhile to vex my grieved sprite.

So long your weight hath lain,
Your weight hath lain upon my breast.
That lo I live of life bereaved quite,
Give me time to draw, to draw my weary breath.

From silent night,
True register of moans.
From saddest soul, consumed;
With sins, with deepest sins.

From heart quite rent,
With sighs and heavy groans.
My wailing Muse begins, begins,
Her work begins.

Go nightly cares, to rest,
Go nightly cares, the foe to rest.
Forbear awhile to vex my sprite,
Forbear awhile to vex my grieved sprite.

So long your weight hath lain,
Your weight hath lain upon my breast.
That lo I live of life bereaved quite,
Give me time to draw, to draw my weary breath.

From silent night,
True register of moans.
From saddest soul, consumed;
With sins, with deepest sins.

From heart quite rent,
With sighs and heavy groans.
My wailing Muse begins, begins,
Her work begins.







DIE VERBANNTEN KINDER EVAS LYRICS