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No. 21: DUET (Dame Carruthers & Meryll)
"Rapture, Rapture!"
| Dame Carruthers. |
Rapture, rapture
When love's votary,
Flushed with capture,
Seeks the notary,
Joy and jollity
Then is polity;
Reigns frivolity!
Rapture, rapture!
Joy and jollity
Then is polity;
Reigns frivolity!
Rapture, rapture! |
| Meryll. |
Doleful, doleful!
When humanity
With its soul full
Of satanity,
Courting privity,
Down declivity
Seeks captivity!
Doleful, doleful!
Courting privity,
Down declivity
Seeks captivity!
Doleful, doleful! |
| Dame Carruthers. |
Joyful, joyful!
When virginity
Seeks, all coyful,
Man's affinity;
Fate all flowery,
Bright and bowery,
Is her dowery!
Joyful, joyful!
Fate all flowery,
Bright and bowery,
Is her dowery!
Joyful, joyful! |
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Bertha Lewis as Dame Carruthers &
Darrell Fancourt as Sergeant Meryll, 1926
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| Meryll. |
Ghastly, ghastly!
When man, sorrowful,
Firstly, lastly,
Of to-morrow full,
After tarrying,
Yields to harrying—
Goes a-marrying.
Ghastly, ghastly! |
| Dame Carruthers. |
Meryll. |
| Joyful, joyful! |
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Ghastly, ghastly! |
| Joyful, joyful! |
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Ghastly, ghastly! |
| Joyful, joyful! |
Ghastly, ghastly! |
| Joyful, joyful, joyful! |
Ghastly, ghastly, ghastly! |
Rapture, rapture,
When love's votary,
Flushed with capture,
Seeks the notary,
Joy and jollity
Then is polity;
Reigns frivolity!
Rapture, rapture!
Joy and jollity
Then is polity;
Reigns frivolity!
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Doleful, doleful!
When humanity
With its soul full
Of satanity,
Courting privity,
Down declivity,
Seeks captivity!
Doleful, doleful!
Courting privity,
Down declivity
Seeks captivity! |
Rapture, rapture!
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Doleful, doleful! |
Rapture, rapture!
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Doleful, doleful! |
Rapture, rapture,
Rapture, rapture!
Joy and jollity
Then is polity;
Reigns frivolity!
Rapture, rapture! |
Doleful, doleful,
Doleful, doleful!
Courting privity,
Down declivity
Seeks captivity!
Doleful, doleful! |
Exeunt Dame Carruthers & Sergeant Meryll.
     
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