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ACT III

No. 27: FINALE ACT III
"With joy abiding
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Princess.
With joy abiding,
Together gliding
  Through life's variety,
In sweet society,
And thus enthroning
The love I'm owning,
On this atoning
  I will rely!

Chorus.
It were profanity
For poor humanity
To treat as vanity
  The sway of Love.
In no locality
Or principality
Is our mortality
  Its sway above!

Hilarion.
When day is fading,
With serenading
  And such frivolity
Of tender quality —
With scented showers
Of fairest flowers,
The happy hours
  Will gaily fly!
The happy hours
  Will gaily fly!

Chorus.
It were profanity
For poor humanity
To treat as vanity
  The sway of Love.
In no locality
Or principality
Is our mortality
  Its sway above!

Hilarion & Ida
Hilarion (James Hay) &
Princess Ida (Sylvia Cecil), 1919

Princess & Hilarion. Soprano I. Soprano II, Tenor & Bass.
  In no locality
Or principality
Is our mortality
Its sway above!		 Its
sway
above!
With scented showers
Of fairest flowers,
The happy hours
Will gaily fly!		   Its
sway
above!

All.

In no locality,
Or principality,
Is our mortality
Above the sway of love!

Ida & Hilaron
Victoria Sladen as Ida and Thomas Round as Hilarion, 1954

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