To Castle Adamant, and rule your girls
As heretofore, you know.
Princess: And shall I find
The Lady Psyche here?
Psyche: If Cyril, ma'am,
Does not behave himself, I think you will.
Princess: And you Melissa, shall I find you here?
Melissa: Madam, however Florian turns out,
Unhesitatingly I answer, No!
Gama: Consider this, my love, if your mama
Had looked on matters from your point of view
(I wish she had), why where would you have been?
Blanche: There's an unbounded field of speculation,
On which I could discourse for hours!
Princess: No doubt!
We will not trouble you. Hilarion,
I have been wrong -- I see my error now.
Take me, Hilarion -- "We will walk this world
Yoked in all exercise of noble end!
And so through those dark gates across the wild
That no one knows!" Indeed, I love thee -- Come!
Finale
"With joy abiding"
Princess: With joy abiding,
Together gliding
Through life's variety,
In sweet society,
And thus enthroning
The love I'm owning,
On this atoning
I will rely!
Chorus: It were profanity
For poor humanity
To treat as vanity
The sway of Love.
In no locality
Or principality
Is our mortality
It's sway above!
Hilarion: When day is fading,
With serenading
And such frivolity
Of tender quality--
With scented showers
Of fairest flowers,
The happy hours
Will gaily fly!
The happy hours will gaily fly!
Chorus: It were profanity
For poor humanity
To treat as vanity
The sway of Love.
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