>Act
II
No. 13: Duet (Selene & Ethais)
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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