Songs, Duos, Trios, Chorusses, &c. in the Comic Opera of the Carnival of Venice, as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane [by Richard Tickell] |
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AIR by Mrs. CARGILL. |
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AIR by Mrs. CARGILL.
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Young Lubin was a shepherd boy,Fair Rosalie a rustic maid;
They met, they lov'd; each others joy,
Together o'er the hills they stray'd.
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Their parents saw, and bless'd their love,Nor wou'd their happiness delay;
To-morrow's dawn their bliss should prove,
To-morrow be their wedding-day.
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When as at eve, beside the brook,Where stray'd their flocks, they sat and smil'd,
One luckless lamb the current took,
'Twas Rosalie's—she started wild.
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Run, Lubin, run, my fav'rite save;Too fatally the youth obey'd:
He ran, he plung'd into the wave,
To give the little wanderer aid.
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But scarce he guides him to the shore,When faint and sunk, poor Lubin dies:
Ah Rosalie! for ever more,
In his cold grave thy Lover lies.
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On that lone bank—Oh! still be seen,Faithful to grief, thou hapless maid;
And with sad wreaths of cypress green,
For ever sooth thy Lubin's shade.
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