NOW O NOW I NEEDS MUST PART Lyrics 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, when I am from thee 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. (---) 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 liv'd and dieth true (---) Sad despair doth drive me hence, This despair unkindness sends. (---) If that parting be offence, It is she which then offends. (---)