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Why, do you leave me,

My sweet mistress of the night?

Your remembrance burns

Through my mind

Lay beside me, one last time.

Cold, pale, faint,

The image of you,

As the colour left from your eyes

As I lay her down,

We recite our wedding vows.

Lowering her, to the ground,

My beloved, dying bride.

"To have and to hold,

In laughter and in tears,

In sickness and in health."

Death, did us part.

Now, I'm a beggar,

Kneeling before you,

Begging for your mercy,

Begging for forgiveness.

Your apparition, gone,

By the morning light.

As the fingers,

Of another, meaningless tomorrow

Slip underneath the curtain of the night.