Four Partsongs to Lyrics by Robert Burns

From thee, Eliza, I must go,
  And from my native shore;
The cruel fates between us throw
  A boundless ocean's roar:
But boundless oceans, roaring wide,
  Between my love and me,
They never, never can divide
  My heart and soul from thee.
 
Farewell, farewell, Eliza dear,
  The maid that I adore!
A boding voice is in mine ear,
  We part to meet no more!
But the latest throb that leaves my heart,
  While Death stands victor by, -- 
That throb, Eliza, is thy part,
  And thine that latest sigh!

Fair the face of orient day,
  Fair the tints of op'ning rose;
But fairer still my Delia dawns,
  More lovely far her beauty shows.
 
Sweet the lark's wild warbled lay,
  Sweet the tinkling rill to hear;
But, Delia, more delightful still,
  Steal thine accents on mine ear.
 
The flower-enamour'd busy bee
  The rosy banquet loves to sip;
Sweet the streamlet's limpid lapse
  To the sun-brown'd Arab's lip.
 
But, Delia, on thy balmy lips
  Let me, no vagrant insect, rove;
O let me steal one liquid kiss,
  For Oh! my soul is parch'd with love.

Chorus
Long, long the night,
  Heavy comes the morrow
While my soul's delight
  Is on her bed of sorrow.
 
Can I cease to care?
  Can I cease to languish,
While my darling Fair
  Is on the couch of anguish?
      Long, long, &c.
 
Ev'ry hope is fled,
  Ev'ry fear is terror,
Slumber ev'n I dread,
  Ev'ry dream is horror.
      Long, long, &c.
 
Hear me, Powers Divine!
  Oh, in pity, hear me!
Take aught else of mine,
  But my Chloris spare me!
      Long, long, &c.

The crimson blossom charms the bee,
The summer sun the swallow;
So dear this tuneful gift to me
From lovely Isabella.

Her portrait fair upon my mind
Revolving Time shall mellow;
And Mem'ry's latest effort find
The lovely Isabella.

No Bard nor Lover's rapture this,
In fancies vain and shallow;
She is, so come my soul to bliss!
The lovely Isabella.