Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears To a woeful wight To a woeful wretched wight Hence, Despair, with thy tormenting fears Do not my poor heart Do not my heart affright In darkness let me dwell The ground shall sorrow be Roof despair to bar All cheerful light from me Walls of marble black Moistened still Moistened still shall weep Music jarring sounds Banish sleep Banish friendly sleep Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears To a woeful wight To a woeful wretched wight Hence, Despair, with thy tormenting fears Do not my poor heart Do not my heart affright In darkness let me dwell The ground shall sorrow be Roof despair to bar All cheerful light from me Walls of marble black Moistened still Moistened still shall weep Music jarring sounds Banish sleep Banish friendly sleep In darkness let me dwell The ground shall sorrow be Roof despair to bar All cheerful light from me Walls of marble black Moistened still Moistened still shall weep Music jarring sounds Banish sleep Banish friendly sleep