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Maia:

The answer in your eyes

I dare not look and read!

If in your heart no pity lies,

Then hope is dead indeed!

But mercy calls to you

To hear and heed my cry,

For she who loves can pity too —

And you have loved as I.

Diomed:

Forgive! Forgive! And let my dear one live!

I ask for her your pardon full and free!

In mercy's name

Her life from you I claim;

Forgive! Forgive! And spare my love to me.

I ask not your intent —

What fate may be my own,

But this I ask — that punishment

May fall on me alone;

Let sweet compassion stir

Your heart to noble deeds,

And grant forgiveness full to her

Who broken hearted pleads.

Maia:

Forgive! Forgive! And let my dear one live!

I ask for him your pardon full and free!

In mercy's name

His life from you I claim;

Forgive! Forgive! And spare my love to me.

Chorus:

Sopranos/Tenor	Bass
Forgive! Forgive! And let her dear one live	Forgive! Forgive! And let him live.
We ask for him your pardon full and free,