MERMAN AND MERMAID.
(Grand Operatic Phantasmagoria)
(Sea Nymphs appear. Each one carries a small horn.)
FIVE SEA NYMPHS.
What mystery here behold?
The sea in sleep had drowned
These wandering, wearisome souls.
Let's not molest them
From peaceful slumber.
How calm, how still,
They do not breathe.
Now our horns we'll sound,
The sea will echo magic round.
(Trumpet and Horn calls)
(After the Nymphs have almost disappeared, Mermen and Mermaids arrive)
MERMEN AND MERMAIDS.
(Double chorus)
Those sounds mysteriously
Filled the sea with echoes.
Perhaps may be our parents calling
Or some mystery in the deep.
Great wonders, behold here they are,
Clothed in Nature's garments.
How pale, how calm, their hearts beat not.
Oh merciful God !
The sea claimed their last sleep.
MERMEN.
Those curious, wondrous Nymphs perhaps,
In magic have entrapped
Their souls to the Garden of the Gods.
MERMEN AND MERMAIDS.
The sea, the sea that in magic sways,
Has thousands of tales untold.
Where enemies lay in wait,
Betrays mysteries that never unfold.
The sea, the sea, that in magic sways,
The sea, the sea, that in magic sways,
Has thousands of tales untold.
Where enemies lay in wait,
Betrays mysteries that never unfold.
(King Neptune blesses all)
(Mermen and Mermaids cover them with plants)
(End of Opera)
