# I can bid thee now, Farewell!

- Music: Ann Mounsey (died 1891)
- Words: J. V. S. Esq.
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6648595

## The words

Farewell! yet ere we bid a last adieu,  
Ere Ocean’s waves between us intervene;  
Ere other climes shall change the present  
scene: Say, wilt thou change with it?  
or still be true?  
Say, shall I then within thy mem’ry dwell,  
When all around thee beams with pleasure’s  
smiles? Say, will thy heart, in truth,  
resist those wiles? Say yes, say yes,  
and I can bid thee now farewell.  
farewell! fare well!  
Or, shall the cup of sorrow yet again,  
Already nearly full, be running o’er;  
Shall Fate, its sad contents relent less pour,  
While I, alas, that bitter  
cup must drain? that bitter cup must drain?  
Oh! no it cannot be! I know, too well,  
Thy love thy Truth thy Constancy thy Heart.  
Since then indeed To meet again we part,  
Tho’ deep in Sorrow, I can say Farewell!  
Farewell!  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).