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All Alone to My Eerie
No. 16, Sung by Teresa

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Enter Teresa. Her manner suggests that she is crazed.

Recitative. — Teresa.

All alone to my eerie I wander a-weary,
A desolate maid of her lover bereft;
What matter? ’tis only a heart that is lonely —
A-many the maids that a lover has left!

Ballad.

Whispering breeze,
Bring me my dear!
Wind-shaken trees,
Beckon him here!
Rivulet, hie —
Prithee go see —
Birds, as ye fly,
Call him to me!
Tell him the tale of the tears that I shed —
Tell him I die for the love that is dead!
Tell him the tale of the tears that I shed —
Tell him I die for the love that is dead!

Heart that in jest
Laughed him to scorn,
Now in my breast
Lying forlorn —
Idle to plead -
Cherish thy chain —
Thou shall be freed
Never again!
My heart it is sad and a-weary my head,
For I weep and I die for the love that is dead!
My heart it is sad and a-weary my head,
For I weep and I die for the love that is dead!
She sinks, weeping, on a seat.

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