| Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
The Rose of Persia
Song No. 4
Sunbeam! The Priest keeps saying and If a sudden stroke of Fate" |
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RECITATIVE.
Blush:
- Sunbeam! the Priest keeps saying, sotto
voce,
- "You'll soon be widows — five-and-twenty widows!"
- I find his conversation most depressing!
Sunbeam:
- Depressing? Nonsense!
Abdallah:
- Five-and-twenty widows!
- Unhappy lot!
Sunbeam:
- A lot — but not unhappy!
TRIO. — BLUSH-OF-
MORNING, DANCING SUNBEAM, and ABDALLAH.
- Abdallah:
- If a sudden stroke of Fate
- Your Hassan eliminate —
- Blush:
- I shall sit and sob and sigh,
- "Woe is me, a widow I!"
- Sunbeam:
- But you'll gradually grow
- Quite accustomed to the blow!
| Blush |
Sunbeam, Abdallah |
| Yes, time will |
Yes, time will soften ev'ry |
| soften every blow! |
blow, And that's a cheerful thing to know! |
- Abdallah:
- Nature needs (and gets) variety!
- Sunbeam:
- Nature pleads for bright Society!
- Blush:
- Widow's weeds may choke Felicity —
- All:
- Time and his sickle the weeds may prune!
- Abdallah:
- Longest lane will turn to happiness!
- Sunbeam:
- Why complain of widow's-cappiness?
- Blush:
- Steps regain their elasticity —
- Time is a lover of lively tune!
- All:
- Time will soften every blow,
- That's a useful thing to know!
- Time will soften every blow,
- That's a useful thing to know!
- Time will soften every blow,
- Yes, time will soften ev'ry kind of blow,
- Ev'ry blow!
DANCE.
Exeunt Blush-of-Morning and Dancing Sunbeam to house,
Abdallah to street.
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