The Seraglio a comic opera, in two acts: as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden [by Edward Thompson] |
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AIR.
[Ah! what avails the brightest Worth]
Elmira.
Ah! what avails the brightest Worth
That in Abdallah's Bosom flows;
Tho' Truth and Reason there have Birth,
Tho' there each radiant Virtue glows!
Must I, at Distance plac'd, survey
The Beam that other Hearts inspires,
While, with unkind, averted-Ray,
From me its chearing Warmth retires.
That in Abdallah's Bosom flows;
Tho' Truth and Reason there have Birth,
Tho' there each radiant Virtue glows!
Must I, at Distance plac'd, survey
The Beam that other Hearts inspires,
While, with unkind, averted-Ray,
From me its chearing Warmth retires.
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