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Teresa, Little Word
and
Bedecked in Fashion Trim
No. 6, Sung by Alfredo
 MIDI File 3 min. 40 seconds.
Enter Alfredo.
Recitative. — Alfredo.
- Teresa! little word so glibly spoken!
- Take pity on a heart that’s all but broken!
- Teresa! one-word poem trisyllabic;
- An Eastern ode in sensuous Arabic —
- Would that thou wert as tender in thy nature
- As in thy soft and tender nomenclature!
Ballad. — Alfredo.
- Bedecked in fashion trim,
- With every curl a-quiver;
- Or leaping, light of limb,
- O’er rivulet and river;
- Or skipping o’er the lea
- On daffodil and daisy;
- Or stretched beneath a tree,
- All languishing and lazy —
- Whatever be her mood;
- Be she demurely prude,
- Or languishingly lazy;
- My lady drives me crazy
- In vain her heart is wooed,
- Whatever be her mood!
- What profit should I gain
- Suppose she loved me dearly?
- Her coldness turns my brain
- To verge of madness nearly.
- Her kiss — though, Heaven knows,
- To dream of it were treason —
- Would tend, as I suppose,
- To utter loss of reason!
- My state is not amiss;
- I would not have a kiss
- Which, in or out of season,
- Might tend to loss of reason!
- What profit in such bliss?
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- A fig for such a kiss!
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