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Three Songs for Voice and Harp

Song Cycle by Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)

?. So, we'll go no more a roving

Language: English

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So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be [still]1 as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.

For the sword outwears the sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart [must pause to breathe]2,
And Love itself have rest.

Though the night was made for loving,
And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon.
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Included in a letter to Thomas Moore on February 28, 1817
See also Henley's "We'll go no more a-roving"
1 Armstrong: "ne'er"
2 Armstrong: "itself must pause"

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