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Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...

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ACT TWO<br />

BUTTERFLY<br />

All Peaches, violets, jessamine,<br />

Ev'ry spray of gorse or grass or flow'ring tree.<br />

SUZUKI<br />

Desolate as in winter the garden will appear.<br />

(goes into the garden)<br />

BUTTERFLY<br />

Ah ! but the balmy breath of spring<br />

sweetness here.<br />

SUZUKI<br />

shall shed her<br />

(appears on the terrace and holds out a large bunch of flowers and foliage to <strong>Butterfly</strong>)<br />

Here's more, dear mistress.<br />

BUTTERFLY<br />

(taking the bunch)<br />

'Tis not enough yet.<br />

(<strong>Butterfly</strong> distributes the flowers about the room, while Suzuki goes back to the garden)<br />

SUZUKI<br />

* (from the garden)<br />

How often at this window you've stood and wept, and waited<br />

Gazing and gazing into the wide, wide world beyond.<br />

BUTTERFLY<br />

pray for<br />

I gave my tears<br />

No more need I pray for, since the kind sea has brought him,<br />

:s to the earth, and it returns me flow'rs I<br />

SUSUKI<br />

(reappears on the terrace with another load of flowers)<br />

Not a flow'r left.<br />

BUTTERFLY<br />

(taking the flowers)<br />

Give me your burden.<br />

Come and help me.<br />

The threshold.<br />

(they scatter flowers everywhere)<br />

SUSUKI<br />

Roses shall adorn

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