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Cup us till the world goes round
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Scena ; the text chiefly from Shakespeare, the words of the aria by Thomas S. Collier. It is supposed to be the death scene of Cleopatra, and the words are a sad jumble of odd lines taken from here and there. The music is very pretentious, and obviously not written round Cleopatra, but round Madame Butt's exceptional voice. The prayer to Isis and Osiris, with its un-Shakespearian rhymes of
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would sound quite right with small verbal alterations in any Methodist chapel. The aria is vocal and to a certain extent melodious in a