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No. 5: Duet (Darine & Zayda) and Chorus
Darine. | |||||
Man is a being all accuse | |||||
Of every vice detestable: | |||||
To virtue blinded, he pursues | |||||
A course that's unarrestable. | |||||
Yet if we let one man of shame | |||||
Observe our lives immaculate, | |||||
He would (returning whence he came) | |||||
Ecstatically ejaculate, ejaculate Ecstatically ejaculate — |
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"Atone, atone! Repent, repent! |
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The pure alone | |||||
Know true content!" | |||||
These tidings good, No doubt he would |
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Ecstatically ejaculate! | |||||
Chorus. | |||||
The news would take the world by storm, And be received with welcome warm; Those words he would, in some such form, |
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Darine. | |||||
In some such form, Ejaculate! |
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Chorus. | |||||
Ejaculate, ecstatically ejaculate! | |||||
Darine & Chorus. | |||||
Those words he would, in some such form, | |||||
Ecstatically ejaculate! |
Zayda. | |||||
Man is a brute, oppressed by strange | |||||
Unintellectuality: | |||||
Enlighten him, and you will change | |||||
His normal immorality. | |||||
If we exhibited to some | |||||
Our course of life delectable, | |||||
They might in course of time become | |||||
Comparatively respectable, respectable, Comparatively respectable! |
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Oh, picture then | |||||
Our joy sublime, | |||||
If mortal men | |||||
Became in time — | |||||
Suppose we say, In guarded way, |
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Comparatively respectable! | |||||
Chorus. | |||||
The news would take the world by storm, And be received with welcome warm, And all would be by this reform, |
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Zayda. | |||||
By this reform, respectable! | |||||
Chorus. | |||||
Respectable, Comparatively respectable! |
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Darine, Zayda & Chorus. | |||||
And all would be by this reform, | |||||
Comparatively respectable! | |||||
Respectable, | |||||
Comparatively, | |||||
And all would be by this reform, | |||||
Comparatively respectable! |
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