. St. Nicholas [serial]. ove, joy can never be the star to its pole, so my heart turns to the silence of night, let us float far awayOer the waves, to the light of a sorrowless day. Oh, come, my beloved, come ; Oh, heart of my heart, my own,Oh, star of my twilight, come ! I am weary waiting for thee alone. Prince and Amoret : And, oh, if my heart had wings, To fly like a swallow, far,Away and away, to the end of the day, Where the cool and the palm-trees are. Prince and Amoret :Air, Love Comes like a Summer Sigh. Love comes like a summer sigh, softly oer me comes
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ove, joy can never be the star to its pole, so my heart turns to the silence of night, let us float far awayOer the waves, to the light of a sorrowless day. Oh, come, my beloved, come ; Oh, heart of my heart, my own,Oh, star of my twilight, come ! I am weary waiting for thee alone. Prince and Amoret : And, oh, if my heart had wings, To fly like a swallow, far,Away and away, to the end of the day, Where the cool and the palm-trees are. Prince and Amoret :Air, Love Comes like a Summer Sigh. Love comes like a summer sigh, softly oer me comes, and you wonder why at its shrine you re kneeling. Chorus : Love comes, and the days go by, while your fate Love s stealing —Love some day must come to all, come to all. [Prince and Amoret seat themselvesabove on rocks at the back of thestage. Gipsies grouped over therocks, forming tableau. AMORET. Bring in the dancers. [Music. Enter Ballet-dancers (ninelittle girls with castanets), who dancebefore the THE BALLET. Away to bliss and love We will fly to-night alone,To some distant shore, where we 11 live evermore Together, my sweet, my own ! Prince. Then you do consent ? You will fly withme ? Amoret. I will. Prince. To-night, then, we v/ill steal away. We 11take a boat and escape to some distant landwhere your subjects can never find usRemember, to-night! [Exeunt. POLLY {coming to front with raised fist). Re-venge ! Revenge ! An idea comes ! I willsteal away after them, and follow this faith-less pair. I have our own little boat, andwhen I have tracked them to their destina-tion I will return to the Kingdom of Imagina-tion and betray the whereabouts of thisrecreant prince ! Oh, Prince Charming,you little knew what a bother I was toprove! [Exit. [Music. Gipsies run in, shaking tam-borines. Prince leads Amoret in. Act III. [Scene I. Anteroom of palace. BLOWSA-bella alone. BLOWSABELLA. Oh, breaking heart! Oh, crushed,down-trodden hopes ! Never while life lastswil
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