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No. 13: DUET (Zara & Fitzbattleaxe)
"Words of love too loudly spoken"
Charles Kenningham & Nancy McIntosh in the Original Production, 1893
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| Zara. |
Words of love too loudly spoken
Ring their own untimely knell;
Noisy vows are rudely broken,
Soft the song of Philomel.
Whisper sweetly, whisper slowly,
Hour by hour and day by day;
Sweet and low as accents holy
Are the notes of lover's lay.
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| Both. |
Sweet and low,
Sweet and low,
Sweet and low as accents holy
Are the notes of lover's lay,
Are the notes of lover's lay. |
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| Fitzbattleaxe. |
Let the conqueror, flushed with glory,
Bid his noisy clarions bray;
Lovers tell their artless story
In a whispered virelay.
False is he whose vows alluring
Make the listening echoes ring;
Sweet and low when all-enduring
Are the songs that lovers sing!
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| Both. |
Sweet and low,
Sweet and low,
Sweet and low when all-enduring
Are the songs that lovers sing,
Are the songs that lovers sing!
Sweet and low,
Sweet and low. |
Exit Zara.
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5 December, 2005
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