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No. 6: Recit. & Song (Bunthorne)
"Am I alone, and unobserved...
If you're anxious for to shine "
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Enter Bunthorne, who changes his manner and becomes intensely melodramatic.
Bunthorne. Am I alone, This air severe This cynic smile This costume chaste Let me confess! |
A languid love for lilies does not blight me!
Lank limbs and haggard cheeks do not delight me!
I do not care for dirty greens
By any means.
I do not long for all one sees
That's Japanese.
I am not fond of uttering platitudes
In stained-glass attitudes.
In short, my mediaevalism's affectation,
Born of a morbid love of admiration!
If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line And ev'ry one will say, |
Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days
which have long
since passed away,
And convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne
was Culture's palmiest day.
Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new,
and
declare it's crude and mean,
For Art stopped short in the cultivated court of the Empress
Josephine.
And ev'ryone will say,
As you walk your mystic way,
"If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for me,
Why, what a very cultivated kind of youth this kind of youth must
be!"
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion And ev'ryone will say, |
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