Song - Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go-Richard Burton

[ti:Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go] [ar:Richard Burton] [al:The Richard Burton Poetry Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Song - Sweetest Love, I Do Not Go - Richard Burton [00:00.98]Sweetest love I do not go [00:02.57]For weariness of thee [00:03.95] [00:04.85]Nor in hope the world can show [00:06.85]A fitter love for me [00:08.14] [00:09.40]But since that I [00:10.35]Must die at last 'tis best [00:12.28]To use myself in jest [00:14.50]Thus by feign'd deaths to die [00:16.93] [00:18.64]Yesternight the sun went hence [00:20.57]And yet is here today [00:22.22] [00:22.86]He hath no desire nor sense [00:25.10]Nor half so short a way [00:26.82] [00:27.87]Then fear not me [00:29.34]But believe that I shall make [00:30.63]Speedier journeys since I take [00:33.43]More wings and spurs than he [00:35.28] [00:38.07]O how feeble is man's power [00:40.70] [00:41.79]That if good fortune fall [00:43.40] [00:44.13]Cannot add another hour [00:45.84] [00:46.50]Nor a lost hour recall [00:48.15] [00:49.45]But come bad chance [00:51.01] [00:51.58]And we join to'it our strength [00:53.33] [00:54.12]And we teach it art and length [00:55.94]Itself over us to advance [00:58.38] [01:00.24]When thou sigh'st thou sigh'st not wind [01:02.78]But sigh'st my soul away [01:04.70] [01:05.80]When thou weep'st unkindly kind [01:08.70] [01:09.60]My life's blood doth decay [01:11.39] [01:13.02]It cannot be [01:13.89]That thou lovest me as thou say'st [01:16.25] [01:17.31]If in thine my life thou waste [01:19.48] [01:20.29]That art the best of me [01:21.67] [01:23.61]Let not thy divining heart [01:25.41]Forethink me any ill [01:26.84] [01:28.01]Destiny may take thy part [01:29.63]And may thy fears fulfil [01:31.29] [01:32.78]But think that we [01:33.84] [01:34.54]Are but turn'd aside to sleep [01:36.69] [01:37.69]They who one another keep [01:39.36]Alive never parted be