Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces - Softcover
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Excerpt: ... declares that he "cannot live alone," and his cousin Hebe assures him she will never give up the ship; or rather that she never will desert him, unless of course she should discover that he, too, was changed in the cradle. This comforts everybody but the changed Captain. Ralph has, in the twinkling of an eye, become the Captain of the good ship Pinafore, while the Captain has become Ralph, and Ralph has taken the Captain's daughter. But while he is looking very downcast, Buttercup reminds him that she is there, and after regarding her tenderly for a moment, he decides that he has always loved his foster mother like a wife, and he says so: I shall marry with a wife, In my humble rank of life, And you, my own, are she. The crew is delighted. Everybody is happy. But the Captain adds, rashly: I must wander to and fro, But wherever I may go I shall never be untrue to thee! Whereupon the crew, which is very punctilious where the truth is concerned, cries: "What, never?" "No, never!" the Captain declares. "What
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