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So We'll Go No More A-Roving Lyrics
music by R. Dyer-Bennett,
lyrics by George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
So we'll go no more a-roving
So late into the night
Though the heart be still 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
And love itself must rest
Though the night was made for loving
And the day returned too soon
Still we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon
lyrics by George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
So late into the night
Though the heart be still as loving
And the moon be still as bright
And the soul wears out the breast
And the heart must pause to breathe
And love itself must rest
And the day returned too soon
Still we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon
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a polite way to talk yourself out of a lady's company if I ever saw one! It is softened by talker's slipping grief in the last line, though.
Actually, this is a poem by Lord Byron about his body giving way to age and dissolute living (written before he was 30!)
But when I hear Joan Baez sing it, it evokes a very different meaning for me: a young woman whose lover has died, lamenting that they will never again share a midnight tryst. Her voice makes it heartbreaking.