Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
Puccini, Giactmo Madama Butterfly. Liteetto. English & Italian ...
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ACT OtfE 11<br />
PlNKERTOX<br />
(very impatiently)<br />
Go and fetch her, Goro.<br />
(Goro runs to the back and disappears down the hill)<br />
SHABPLESS<br />
What folly has seized you!<br />
D' you think you are<br />
Intoxicated ?<br />
PiNKERTON<br />
(rises impatiently. Sharpless rises also)<br />
May be! Depends<br />
On what you call intoxication!<br />
Is't love or fancy, maid or myth<br />
I cannot tell you all that I know is<br />
She, with her innocent charm, has entranc'd me.<br />
Almost transparently fragile and slender,<br />
Dainty in stature, quaint little figure,<br />
Seems to have stepped down<br />
Straight from a screen.<br />
But from her background of varnish and lacquer<br />
Suddenly, light as a feather she flutters,<br />
And, like a butterfly, hovers and settles,<br />
With so much charm and such seductive graces,<br />
That to pursue her a wild wish seized me<br />
Though in the quest her frail wings should be broken.<br />
SHABPLESS<br />
(seriously and kindly)<br />
The other day, she came up<br />
To call at the Consulate!<br />
I did not see her, but I heard her speak.<br />
And the mystery of her voice<br />
Touched my very soul.<br />
Surely love that is pure and true speaks like that.<br />
It were indeed sad pity<br />
To tear those dainty wings,<br />
And perchance to torment a trusting heart.<br />
No cry of anguish should e'er be uttered<br />
By that gentle and trusting little voice.
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