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There is little action in the play and that little is divided into three incidents. Orpheus performs the funeral rites of his beloved wife and the Chorus join in his murnful plaints, He resolves to go down into the infernal regions to rescue her and is told by love that his prayers for permission to do so have been granted by Zeus on condition that he will not look upon her till she is safe on earth again, Orpheus descends to Hades but finds ais way barred by the Furies and a host of ghostly phantoms. He is pleading, music softens their hearts and they permit him to pass. In the Elysian fields he finds Eurydice, and takes her by the hand to lead her back to the upperworld. Eurydice pleads for a glance and Orpheus at last consents to gaze on here whereupon she falls liveless to the ground. Here the old myth ends, In the opera, however, Zve compassionately restores Eurydice xo life and the loving ones are happy. PERSONAGES Oreueus. Evurypice. Amor. Cnorus. (4) Shepherds and Shepherdesses, (4) Furies and Demons, (¢) Heroes and Heroines in HadesORPHEUS. ACT I. Chorus. Ah! in our still and mournful meadow, Wife of Orpheus, let thy shadow All unseen, contented hear. How thy mourners all faithful hearted, Sad are wailing one departed, Who in death yet more than life is d Heat in distress How weepeth heart bereaved, Nougth remaineth to bless. The youth by fate deceived, Like a lorn bird How he plaineth! To whom remaineth No shelter in the wilderness. Orpheus. The sounds of your lament Increase my bitter anguish, In silence awhile ‘To Eurydice’s shade Pay the sad tribute due With freshest flowers her tomb bestrew! Chorus. Ah! in our still and mournful meadow, ‘Wife of Orpheus let thy shadow All unseen contented hear, How thy mourners all faithful hearted, Sad are wailing one departed, Who in death yet more than life is dear, Who in death yet more than life is dear. Orpheus. And now retire, I would alone indulge my grief, And by men unobserved give my tears vent to flow. (Beit Chorus.) My Enrydice! my Eurydice! Lost forever. Hear my woe! More cruel despair hath mortal suffered never! And the gods upon high Compassion will not show. Even echo more nigh, To mock me doth endeavor! Dearest! untimely gone, Thee do I call at dawn By grove and river, When moon hath ceased to burn And Hesper doth return, Thee I mourn ever. ©, Enrydice! my Eurydice! Thy death with me, And tell thy dear name to the vale, ‘And our grey olive tree On its bark reeords my woful passionate tale In words by grief made frail, My Enrydice no more | While living yet am I. Heaven! my lost love restore | Or let me also die! Full are my dveams of fear, | No more distress could bear6 ORPHEUS. Heart, even firmer. The stream meandering by, Hearing my lonely ery, Pity doth murmur. Ye frowning ministers of night, Who cower in caves below, Round the monarch of shadows. Ye, who serving the awful Pluto, In torture and terror take only delight, Who by love and by light Are unmoved, unpersuaded, You have torn from our earth The blooming flower I cherished, Shall my anguish be still? What would ye? Could not her youth, hi From doom so undese1 ‘That gentle victim spare ? From your talons accurst My beloved will I tear, I will foree down my way ‘To the dungeon that holds her, And my ery of despair Shall your tyranny subdu To shiver the chain that enfolds her I will gladly dare the worst. Love. Behold, where Love appears ‘To befriend a true lover, Listen and hope! The gods have been moved by thy tears, ‘Thou to the realm of death descending Mayest Eurydico recov If thine art aught can do! If the gift of song have not left thee, If mellow tone of voice and lyre Can melt the marble rock and can conquer the fire, Death shall to earth restore Her of whose love it hath left the Orpheus. Heavens! shall we mect again? Lov Yes! But the boon to gain There is much to endure as to dare. Hearken and obey what I shall tell thee. Orphen Ah! is there aught I cannot bear? Command the worst, I fly to brave it? Love. The deities have thus decreed That on thy wife, when first restored thee, Thou must strictly forbear To east a single gaze, Shouldst thou fail by one look, Ye are parted forever, So the great Jove doth will His condition of aid Which thou canst evade or fulfill. Obeying the trial ‘Thy passion con An hour of denial May buy thee a future of rapturous gain, For patience and silence endear to the lover The pleasure when something is left to discov The longest remain Submit to the trial, ' Though hard the denial, And soon shall be ended Thy wearisome pain, in, Orpheus. What do T hear? Can it be? My Eurydice | ‘My lost, my loved on Will pity ‘ing heaven with wondrous favor Restore mine own? But then I am forbid When to life she returneth To ,ress her to mine heart, O wife most cherished Great is the boon, But how stern the decree; T foresee thy mistrust, I foresee thy alarms, And the mere imagining Of a trial so cruel With affraight chilleth my blood. Yes! it shall be! I will endure, I do swear it! O Love! O Love! I trust in thee To give me strength to bear it;ORPHEUS. To bargain for my bliss Were ungrateful and treason, Ihave sworn, heavenly powers, I obey on bended knee. 6 love, with hope thou dost arm me, Rapture and courage warm me; With such a thought to charm me The powers of death will I brave. No demon ean fight or ean harm me, Nor monster of hell disarm me With terrors of the grave. With such a thought to charm me ‘The powers of death will I brave. ACT IL. Chorus. Who through this awful place Thinking alive to pass, Rashly dares venture here? Looking in death’s cold face Nor showing fear? Quick pangs his frame shall thrill Slow fear his pulses chill, Cerberus! wake to kill, ‘Thy new prey here! Orpheus. Tin pity be moved by my grief Phantome! Demons! Let prayer and pleading tearful For iny misery win relief. Chorus, No! No! No! Who hath beguiled thee here Mortal too rash to dare? ‘These are the depths of hell Where the avengers dwell And for the insolent Tortures prepare! ‘These are the depths of hell Where the avengers dwell ; These are the depths of hell Visions too fearful, x Where the avengers dwell And for the insolent ‘Tortures prepare! Orpheus. Ah! No torture you could obtain me Equal the torments already that pain me, No pangs of fire or of wheel Are half so dread as tho: Chorus, What is this wondrous charm ‘That Pury can Making the power Pause and awhile be still As in alarm! Orpheus. IfT brave you ’Tis to crave you Yonr resistance to lay by Ah! my sighing and my weeping Shall constrain you to comply ! Chorus. How the tones sadly clear, Win us entranced to hear: He hath no need to fe: Powerful to conquer hell With such a spell, Down let him go his way, Naught shall his journey stay; ‘Terror or wrath are still, They cannot seare or kill, He hath his will. Euryllice. In this tranquil and lovely abode of the blest From the earth do we dwell far away, Calm and eternal rest, Because of its calm is gay For the air by its breathing can quiet Riots Every flowery odor doth heal us, steal us From remembrance too profound, ‘And reigneth in place of sadness, ness. On this charmed ground. Glad- Orpheus. How mild a day, without a noon, The light, how pale,8 ORPHEUS. Not of sun or moon; What music from the wind ’Mid roses smd jessamin flowing, From the bird on every bough, From the river murmuring through Meadows with asphodel glowing, ‘The weary here may rest, All memory left behind ! But this soft light, This quiet round me, Cannot draw out the string of my woe ! ©, my love, thy slave have I bound me, To live but in thy living joy apart to know; © once more voice of thine to hear! O thy smile once more to see! to dream thee near ‘¢ too abundant joy for me! Chorus of Shadow To our calm thy heart surrender Consort faithful, lover most tender, In our home thy grief be o'er. Here perchance may loved one greet thee, Thy Eurydice here may meet thee, Fairer, Kinder than of yore. (Orpheus seeks Eurytice among the Shades.) Orpheus. O ye shadows, who d Why thus coldly delay, My ‘yearnings to fulfil? Ah!'could ye only know ‘The fire that doth consume me You would at once compassion show Nor with unfeeling will To this long waiting doom me, Give her back ere of longing I die! Chorus. Thy entreaty, heaven doth fulfil! When thy loved one cometh nigh thee, Hope should warm thee, Doubt should fly thee, Joy thy happy youth restore. (To Eurydice.) Lo! thy lover comes to find thee, Varth is waiting, Death behind thee, Go to life and hope once more. (They place the hand of Burylice in that of Orpheus.) ACT EE: Orpheu Enrydice ! come with m Of ny unchanged lov. The only cherished object. Eurydice. "Tis thou! and alive ! Heaven ! what rapture wnhoped for! Orpheus. Yes! "tis thy faithful slave Who lived and dared for thee! And hath brought thee again From the fields of the Dead! By the awful gods my woe was pitied, They have heard and to life have restored thee Euryiive. Do E live by thy prayers? Ah! ye heavens ! what a bliss! Orpheus. My Enrydice, come Let us ‘haste to enjoy such a heavenly blessing, And leave this glowing land behind us! Thou art no shade, but mortal; Let the great god of love Re-unite us in glad earthly home. Eurydice. Hear T aright? ean it be? O bliss I searee believe in. How, shall once more the flowers Of Hymen’s chain enwreath us. Orpheus. Yes! nor more our bliss delay! [Orpheus withdraws kis hand from that of Enrydice.]ORPHEUS. But in thine hand My hand is clasped no longer. How? canst fly from my gaze? While still professing pee With heart in hour of rapture to Eurydice cold? Am I changed or grown old, "Phat thou wilt not behold me? Orpheus (nside). Alas! how strait the trial! (Aloud) Eurydice my own! Let me haste from this place, ‘Time is flying. L long to show how madly I do love the: Come, come away, Since here it may not be. Euryiice. One look, anit only one! Orpheus. Timust y forbear! Euryilice. Ah! too cruel! Is this thy love for me? anted re-union, And all T hoped, and all may claim from thee? O destiny, too fatal ! My Orpheus, ah me! cannot know, doth not share The transports so true Of her he hath delivered! Orpheus. By thy mistrust forbear To wound me now. Eurylice. Thou hast given me life To give me only pain. Heavens! take back again your too val- ucless bounty ! Ah! 50 sternly changed! | Rathe: Orpheus. ‘ome, follow thy lord who adores thee ! Evryilice. Live? not I? far than sulter, Thus again content would I die! Orpheus. Hear my anguish! Eurydice. Go and neglect me! Orpheus. Ah! unjust one, Why thus suspect me, Why thus to my passion reply ? Did death with his dart constrain me, Silent I still must be. Eurydice. Tell me! what mystery strange doth chain me? Heavens! professing to relieve ame, Behold of what ye do bereave me! Why by show of favor deceive me, If woe like mine for your bounty paid must be, But why be so mute, so unmoved, so wi- willing? What is this thou wouldst conceal ? ‘Therefore tear me away From the land of rep If but to show chilling? What a fatefiull of woes! ‘My ransomed life forsakes me ‘The shadow of the grave, Around iy brow doth close! Tam strange, [ am worn By the fever of terror all untold, My heart is weeping its tears through mine eyes unsleeping, And the life blood groweth cold In one so utterly forlorn! O fortune, destroying, Why with hate defying, Didst grant an hour’s enjoying If but to betray ? such welcome stern and10 Orpheus. My very heart is riven! My courage unforgiven ! What anguish! what doubting! Resened she yet disclaims me, In vain have T striven, need to further go? What anguish £ what doubting ! What a torment past bearing. Eurydice. Holy quiet enwound me In the realm, where you found me, Now anguish and doubting with life gather round me Wheresoever I go. Orpheus. How endure her pleading ? So late returned, $o feeble and so lonely ? Of my new life so afi Yo gods! I emplore y If T must die again With ne'er a look Froy him that loved me! Not this, not this can I bear, I, who could boldly dare The perils dark that proved me; Now see, now hear no longer, Nor Eurydice, nor my own voice. Euryllice. ‘And canst thou leave me, dearest ? Heaven! Lord of mine! I breathe no more, nor sce, nor hear, Orpheus. One moment, yet all shall be told thee! "Tis this! Am I forgetting ? Cruel gods! When will this anguish be ended # Eurydice. Fare thee well! take a long farewell From Eurydice, the ill-fated. Orpheus. Where am I? How resist such a pleading as this? No! the heavens have no right On a rack thus to bind ine, My Eurydice, tum! Eurydice, My Orpheus! Ah me! I die! [She Jute lifeless. ] Orpheus. What in my haste have I done? To the gulph of destruction My love thrown back once more! Oy consort, my Eurydice! She is cold she is mute, And forever more gone! Tis I, ‘tis I who have the loved one slain. Fate, too fearful, Remorse, too vain. No aid can more avail me In a moment so terrible, Only despair and death Can I bear this anguish weary And my life wear out alone? Earth is desert wild and dreary, Now Enurydice is gone, Lost forever! What silence! But hear me— I for thee have braved dying, Hast thou no fond word replying ? What silence chilling What dread um Life on Its pain, its wretched pain be Ah me! this bitter grief Can but with life be over! Mine can have no relief, Save the one that comes too late, I seek once more the adamantine gate, And there rejoin my wife! Her first only lover ! Yes! let us meet Where nought can part us or grieve Nor long shalt thou await me! Nor long be vexed with weary yearning, For my “sword to thine arms shall straight- way passage cleave. [Draws his sword.ORPHEUS. 11 Love (Enter). Orpheus. Forbear, Orpheus. And what would Love with me? Orpheus. Love. Ye gods! why be cruel anew? Thine anguish well doth prove My distress to restrain Thy constancy and trath, When my reason doth fail? *Tis time that the trial be ended! Eurydice! revive! To embrace the fond youth Who dared so much for thee. Love. What could deed so desperate avail thee? Tum here and greet protecting Love Who already from death hath recalled her! | My Eurydiee ! Orpheus. Orpheus. in his do-min-ion, Deck his al tar joy -fal- ly in his do-m All praise to love, andto all in his do-min-ion, Deck his al - tar joy -ful- ly12 ORPHEUS. ring, Who share his rich tren- sures, Feel his sweet plen” - sure glad - ly their ring, Who share his rich trea- sures, Feel his sweet plea - sure glad! - ly their ving, Who share his rich trea-sures, Feel his swoet plen - sure glad - ly their an of ier-ing bimug, hearisas an of - fer -ing bring. Glad - ly their heartsas an of - fer -ing a2 ee 2.All praise a: ORPHET to. love, and his do- min - ion his do min - ion. to love, and 13aca ORPHEUS. joy. ful-ly ring, Deck his al - tar, joy - fully ring, fal -ly y + ful-ly ring, tar, joy - ful-ly ring. = 1 e 7 | Andante. Gen - tle pas - sion, thy sweet bondage —_helds the ptt et a eh eat at en = =eORPHEUS. 15, chains, Gen - tle pas - sion, joy ec - sta - tic. thou dost blind with sor - row's Auon, oe fore the magie of my16 ORPHEUS. ~ = age holds the heart in blissful ee Gen - tle pas - sion, joy ee - stn = = tie, thou dost Soe fails to thus in-spire you, in bliss - fal chains, blind with sor - row's pain, thou dost blind with sor - row's pain,ORPHEUS. Ww Jf the glow that now dost Bre you, nev - or Gen - tle pas - sion Woe to thus im-spire you, grief will ne'er the heart, holds the heart in bliss - - ful chains, Gentle ee-sta ‘tro, thou dost blind with sor - - rows pam, G@rdeis ORPHEUS. oo thy sweet bond - age, thy sweet bond - ageholds the ot pas sion, joy ec- sta - = tic, joy ec-sta = - tic, thou dostORPHEUS. 19 joys unend - ing, joys un - end- = Songs of praise, ev - er - ing, Songs of praise ev-er20 ORPHEUS. Mess mise, give acclaim to his name, give ac claim to his name. mise, give acclaim to his name, give ac - claim...... to his name. wT raise, give ac-claim to his name, give acclaim to his name. = PP py ‘What sweet rapture joys un-end-ing, joys unending, doth lovenow grantus our hearts thus be - - nee ‘Whot sweet rapture joys un-end-ing, joys unending,doth love now grantus our hearts thus be -ORPHEUS. 21 Songs of praise ev - er mise, give acclaim name,..... give ae - chim22 ev- er raise. .. give acclaim, songs of praise ev = ex mise, Give his name, Songs of praise ev - er praise ev - er raise, his nate, Songs of praise ev - erORPHEUS. 23 his name, give ac - claim to his name. his name, give ac - claim to his name. his name, give ac - claimFRANZ LISZT. Messrs. 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