Flow My Tears Songtext
von Alfred Deller

Lo, my tears fall from your springs!
Exiled, forever let me mourn
Where night′s black bird a sad infamy sings
There let me live forlorn

Down, vain lights! Shine you no more
No nights are dark enough for those
That in despair their lost fortunes deplore
Light doth but shame disclose


Never may my woes be repeated
Since pity is fled; and tears, and sighs, and groans
My weary days, my weary days
Of all joys have deprived

From the highest spire of contentment
My fortune is thrown; and fear, and grief, and pain
For my deserts, for my deserts
Are my hopes, since hope is gone

Hark you shadows that in darkness dwell
Learn to condemn light!
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite!