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Dickens, Charles. 'Dance and Finale.' The Village Coquettes (1836): pp.17-18. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836_The_Village_Coquettes_Dance_and_Finale.
CHORUS. Join the dance, with step as light
As ev’ry heart should be to-night;
Music, shake the lofty dome,
In honour of our Harvest Home.
Join the dance, and banish care,
All are young, and gay, and fair;
Even age has youthful grown,
In honour of our Harvest Home.
Join the dance, bright faces beam,
Sweet lips smile, and dark eyes gleam;
All these charms have hither come,
In honour of our Harvest Home.
Join the dance, with step as light,
As ev’ry heart should be to-night;
Music shake the lofty dome
In honour of our Harvest Home.
QUINTET - Lucy - Rose - Edmunds - The Squire - Young Benson
No light bound
Of stag or timid hare,
O’er the ground
Where startled herds repair,
Do we prize
So high, or hold so dear,
As the eyes
That light our pleasures here.
No cool breeze
That gently plays by night,
O’er calm seas,
Whose waters glisten bright;
No soft moan
That sighs across the lea,
Harvest Home,
Is half so sweet as thee!
CHORUS.
Hail to the merry autumn days, when yellow corn-fields shine,
Far brighter than the costly cup that holds the monarch's wine!
Hail to the merry harvest time, the gayest of the year,
The time of rich and bounteous crops, rejoicing, and good cheer.
Hail! Hail! Hail!
The Village Coquettes, An Operatic Burletta in Two Acts (1836). London: John Dicks.
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Dickens, Charles. 'Duet: Lucy and Squire Norton.' The Village Coquettes (1836): pp. 9-10. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-The_Village_Coquettes_Duet_Lucy_SquireNorton.
Squire. In rich and lofty station shine,
Before his jealous eyes;
In golden splendour, lady mine,
This peasant youth despise.
Lucy (Apart-the Squire regarding her attentively).
Oh! it would be revenge indeed,
With scorn his glance to meet.
I, I, his humble pleading heed!
I’d spurn him from my feet.
Squire. With love and rage her bosom’s torn,
And rash the choice will be;
Lucy. With love and rage my bosom’s torn,
And rash the choice will be.
Squire. From hence she quickly must be borne,
Her home, her home, she’ll flee.
Lucy. Oh! long shall I have cause to mourn
My home, my home, for thee!
The Village Coquettes, An Operatic Burletta in Two Acts (1836). London: John Dicks.
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Dickens, Charles. 'Duet: Rose and Sparkins Flam.' The Village Coquettes (1836): p.7. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-The_Village_Coquettes_Duet_Rose_and_Sparkins_Flam.
Flam. ‘Tis true I’m caressed by the witty,
The envy of all the fine beaux,
The pet of the court and the city,
But still, I’m the lover of Rose.
Rose. Country sweethearts, oh, how I despise!
And oh! How delighted I am
To think that I shine in the eyes
Of the elegant – sweet – Mr. Flam.
Flam. Allow me. (Offers to kiss her)
Rose. Pray don’t be so bold, sir (Kisses her.)
Flam. What sweets on that honied lip hang!
Rose. Your presumption, I know, I should scold, sir,
But I really can’t scold Mr. Flam.
Both. Then let us be happy together,
Content with the world as it goes,
An unchangeable couple for ever,
Mr. Flam and his beautiful Rose.
Dickens, Charles. 'Duet.' The Lamplighter (1838): pp. 31-32. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1838-The_Lamplighter_Duet.
Air – ‘The Young May-moon’
Tom. There comes a new moon twelve times a year.
Betsy. And when there is none, all is dark and drear.
Tom. In which I espy –
Betsy. And so, too, do I –
Both. A resemblance to womankind very clear –
Both. There comes a new moon twelve times a year;
And when there is none, all is dark and drear.
Tom. In which I espy –
Betsy. And so do I
Both. A resemblance to womankind very clear.
Tom: She changes, she’s fickle, she drives men mad.
Betsy. She comes to bring light, and leaves them sad.
Tom. So restless wild –
Betsy. But so sweetly wild –
Both. That no better companion could be had.
Both. There comes a new moon twelve times a year;
And when there is none, all is dark and drear.
Tom. In which I espy –
Betsy. And so do I –
Both. A resemblance to womankind very clear.
The Village Coquettes, An Operatic Burletta in Two Acts (1836). London: John Dicks, p.15.
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Dickens, Charles. 'Duett: Squire, Edmunds, and Norton.' The Village Coquettes (1836): p. 15. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-The_Village_Coquettes_Duett_Squire_Edmunds_and_Norton.
Squire. Listen, though I do not fear you,
Listen to me, ere we part.
Edmunds. List to you! Yes, I will hear you.
Squire. Yours alone is Lucy’s heart,
I swear it, by that heav’n above me.
Edmunds. What! can I believe my ears!
Could I hope that she still loves me.
Squire. Banish all these doubts and fears,
If a love were e’er worth gaining,
If love were ever fond and true,
No disguise or passion feigning,
Such is her young love for you.
Squire. Listen, though I do not fear you,
Listen to me, ere we part.
Edmunds. List to you! yes, I will hear you.
Mine alone is her young heart.
The Village Coquettes, An Operatic Burletta in Two Acts (1836). London: John Dicks.
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Dickens, Charles. 'George Edmunds' Song'. The Village Coquettes (1836): pp. 5-6. Dickens Search. Eds. Emily Bell and Lydia Craig. Accessed [date]. https://dickenssearch.com/verse/1836-The_Village_Coquettes_George_Edmunds_Song.
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here;
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear!
How like the hopes of childhood’s day,
Thick clust’ring on the bough!
How like those hopes in their decay –
How faded are they now!
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here;
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear!
Wither’d leaves, wither’d leaves, that fly before the gale;
Withered leaves, withered leaves, ye tell a mournful tale,
Of love once true, and friends once kind,
And happy moments fled:
Dispersed by every breath of wind,
Forgotten, changed, or dead!
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, lie strewn around me here;
Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, how sad, how cold, how drear!