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ACT II
No. 12: TRIO (Hilarion, Cyril & Florian)
"Gently, gently,"
"Gently, gently,"
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Enter Hilarion, Cyril & Florian, climbing over wall, and creeping cautiously among the trees and rocks at the back of the stage.
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| Cyril. | |
| We've learnt that prickly cactus Has the power to attract us |
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| When we fall. | |
| Hilarion & Florian. | |
| When we fall. |
| Hilarion. | |
| That nothing man unsettles Like a bed of stinging nettles, |
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| Short or tall. | |
| Cyril & Florian. | |
| Short or tall. | |
| Florian. | |
| That bulldogs feed on throttles — That we don't like broken bottles |
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| On a wall. | |
| Cyril & Hilarion. | |
| On a wall. | |
| Hilarion. | |
| That spring-guns breathe defiance! And that burglary's a science |
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| After all! | |
| Cyril & Hilarion. | |
| After all! | |
| Florian. |
| A Woman's college! maddest folly going! What can girls learn within its walls worth knowing? I'll lay a crown (the Princess shall decide it) I'll teach them twice as much in half-an-hour outside it. |
| Hilarion. |
| Hush, scoffer; ere you sound your puny thunder, List to their aims, and bow your head in wonder! |
| Hilarion. | Cyril & Florian. |
| They intend to send a wire To the moon — |
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| To the moon; | |
| And they'll set the Thames on fire Very soon — |
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| Very soon; | |
| Then they'll learn to make silk purses With their rigs — |
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| With their rigs; | |
| From the ears of Lady Circe's Piggy-wigs — |
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| Piggy-wigs; | |
| And weasels at their slumbers They trepan — |
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| They trepan; | |
| To get sunbeams from cucumbers They've a plan — |
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| They've a plan; | |
| They've a firmly rooted notion They can cross the Polar Ocean, And they'll find Perpetual Motion, If they can — |
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| If they can. | If they can. |
| All. | |
| These are the phenomena That ev'ry pretty domina |
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| Is hoping at her Universitee we shall see. | |
| These are the phenomena That ev'ry pretty domina |
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| Is hoping at her Universitee we shall see. | |
& Florian (Leslie Rands), 1932
| Cyril. | Hilarion & Florian. |
| As for fashion, they forswear it, So they say — |
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| So they say; | |
| And the circle they will square it Some fine day — |
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| Some fine day; | |
| Then the little pigs they're teaching For to fly — |
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| For to fly; | |
| And they'll practise what they're preaching, By and by — |
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| By and by; | |
| Each newly joined aspirant To the clan — |
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| To the clan; | |
| Must repudiate the tyrant Known as Man — |
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| Known as Man; | |
| They mock at him and flout him, For they do not care about him And they're "going to do without him" If they can |
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| If they can. | If they can. |
| All. | ||
| These are the phenomena That ev'ry pretty domina |
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| Is hoping at her Universitee we shall see. | ||
| These are the phenomena That ev'ry pretty domina |
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| Is hoping at her Universitee we shall see! | ||
| In this college, Useful knowledge |
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| Ev'rywhere one finds, | ||
| And already, Growing steady, |
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| We've enlarged our minds, We've enlarged our minds |
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