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No. 13: Duet (Selene & Ethais)
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| Selene. | ||||
| Thy features are fair and seemly — | ||||
| A god among mortal men: | ||||
| I'm beautiful, too, extremely — | ||||
| Granting all this, what then? | ||||
| Ethais. | ||||
| You're beautiful, too, extremely — | ||||
| Granting all this, what then? | ||||
| Selene. | ||||
| The cause is beyond my ken. | ||||
| I blindly thus reply: | ||||
| "Suppose we were fated To be separated |
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| Assuredly I should die!" | ||||
| Oh, thine is the giving Of dying or living! |
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| I wonder, wonder why? | ||||
| Selene. | ||||
| A being of radiance rarer | ||||
| Is the Sun in his golden noon; | ||||
| Beyond comparison fairer | ||||
| The sheen of the silver Moon. | ||||
| Ethais. | ||||
| Beyond comparison fairer | ||||
| The sheen of the silver Moon. | ||||
| Selene. | ||||
| Each is a God-sent boon. | ||||
| Fairer than you or I — | ||||
| But when they've departed I'm not broken-hearted, |
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| I neither despair nor die! | ||||
| Their rising and setting I see without fretting — |
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| I wonder, wonder why? | ||||
| Selene. | Ethais. | ||||||
| The cause is beyond | |||||||
| The cause is beyond | our ken, | ||||||
| our ken, | I blindly thus | ||||||
| I blindly thus reply: | reply, reply: | ||||||
| "Suppose we were fated To be separated |
"Suppose we were fated To be separated |
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| Assuredly I should die!" | Assuredly I should die!" | ||||||
| Oh, thine is the giving Of dying or living! |
Oh, thine is the giving Of dying or living! |
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| I wonder, wonder why? | I wonder, wonder why? | ||||||
| I wonder why, I wonder why? | I wonder why? | ||||||
| Oh, thine is the giving Of dying or living! |
Oh, thine is the giving Of dying or living! |
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| I wonder why, I wonder why? | I wonder why, I wonder why? | ||||||
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