If You Go Away ...

.... on a summer day,

Then you might as well take the sun away.
(You might as well take away)
All the birds that flew in the summer sky
When our love was new and our hearts were high
When the day was young and the night was long
and the moon stood still ...

But if you stay, I'll make you a day, like no day has been...

But if you stay, I'll make you a night, like no night has been ...
I'll talk to your eyes that I loved so much.

But if you go away,
Leave me just enough love to hold in my hand

If You Go Away, Shirley Bassey
Without question, the couplets were every bit as good as anything Shakespeare ever wrote.

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You have no idea how the couplet ...

When the day was young and the night was long
and the moon stood still ...

... hit me. I remember how dark it got by 4:00 p.m. and how late we walked into the night. And how the stars were so bright, and how, yes, the moon stood still. Every night that was to be the last night, I stayed awake all night, looking at the clock. Time, they say, moves so much more slowly if you watch the clock. Those last nights, even when I watched the clock, did not move any slower. Dawn came too soon. I would not do anything to have those young days and long nights back, but I would do a lot ...