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No. 19 Polonaise
No. 20 Scene and Aria
Onegin
Here, too, I'm bored!
Bored by all this worldly ostentation.
Nothing can extinguish the anguish of my soul!
I've killed the only friend I valued
and, though I've property and wealth,
I'm growing weary with myself.
I'm tried of indolence and leisure;
I've drifted without aim in life
and have no family or wife.
Boredom began to make me restless;
each day brought discontent and spleen,
until the langour of my spirits
impelled me to a change of scene.
I left behind, in disillusion,
the countryside, with its seclusion,
where I now saw at every bend
the spectre of my murdered friend!
And so I set out on my travels
and started wandering without aim.
But soon I realised, in despair,
that travel, too, was just as boring!
So I returned here, paid a call,
and joined them at this tedious ball!
Ecossaise
Guests
The Princess Gremina! Make way there.
Some Men
Which is she, though?
Why, there she is!
Women
The one who's standing by the Prince.
Men
What simple elegance she has!
Onegin
Is that Tatiana? Surely... no!
What, from that dull provincial village?
It cannot be! And how composed,
how unaffected, and how noble!
Her dignity would grace a queen!
Tatiana
Who is that person there, the tall one
beside the Prince?
Men
Oh, he's an odd one,
a misanthrope and somewhat mad.
He's been abroad, we hear,
but now he's back again; his name's Onegin.
Tatiana
Onegin?
Men
Do you know him, then?
Tatiana
We met each other long ago.
Oh, heaven! Let me not betray
that I am tremblin with emotion!
Onegin
I seem to know that lady there,
the one who's in the crimson turban;
the Spanish envoy's at her side.
Gremin
Aha! It seems that you're a stranger!
You must be introduced to her.
Onegin
Who is she, though?
Gremin
My wife, of course!
Onegin
I never knew that you were married.
Since when, though?
Gremin
Just about two years.
Onegin
To whom?
Gremin
The Larin girl.
Onegin
Tatiana!
Gremin
You must have met.
Onegin
Yes, we were neighbours.
No, 20a Aria
Gremin
The gift of love is rightly treasured;
its countless blessings can't be measured.
It brings its warming potency
to callow youths when hearts are free;
or to the warrior, old and grey,
whom Fate has tempared in the fray.
Thus I, a simple man of action,
now love Tatiana to distraction.
A wasted, melancholy life
is what I led until my wife
like sun at last on darkest ocean
awoke my heart to new emotion.
Amid this turmoil and dissension,
this world of ignorance and hate,
where hypocrites can win attention
and cowards partonise and prate;
among coquettes who swar devotion
and fawning fops who court promotion,
amid morality's decay
and friends who'd cheat you and betray;
in all our hollow show of fashion,
this endless, futile, social round
where scarce an honest man is found
who'll keep his word or show compassion,
Tatiana's virtue seemed to shine
with pure devotion, long denied me,
as if some power that was divine
had sent an angel down to guide me.
The gift of love is rightly treasured;
its countless blessings can't be measured.
It brings its warming potency
to callow youths when hearts are free;
or to the warrior, old and grey,
whom Fate has tempared in the fray.
Thus I, a simple man of action,
now love Tatiana to distraction.
A wasted, melancholy life
is what I led until my wife
like sun at last on darkest ocean
awoke my heart to new emotion.
No. 21 Scene and Arioso
Gremin
And now, you must be introduced to her.
My dear, allow me to present you
to my good friend and relative,
Onegin.
Tatiana
I'm pleased to met you;
indeed I think we've met before.
Onegin
In the country... yes... we met.
Tatiana
Do tell me,
have you been living there since then?
Onegin
Oh, no! I've just got back here
from foreign travels.
Tatiana
When was that?
Onegin
This morning.
Tatiana
Dearest, I'm tired now.
Onegin
Is this the very same Tatiana,
the selfsame timid country girl
whose touching innocence and love
I once so hearlessly rejected
with such a moralising lecture?
Yes, she it was, whose youthful passion
I dismissed with such presumption.
How is it she can now appear
so condescending and austere?
What's wrong with me? I'm in a trance.
What is this feeling that has stirred
my friged heart to new emotion?
Resentment? Jealousy? Regret?
Or can it be that I'm in love?
Yes, there's no doubt at all, I love her,
and all my life will never love another!
It seems I once again recapture.
Desire has poisoned me with longing;
henceforth I'll only think of her.
She shall be mine for evermore;
this I shall beg her and implore.
I swear I'll die to win her love once more!
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