Was it for this, O sister, thou didst seek to hide Thy heart from me? Was this the meaning of the pyre, And this the altar fires? What plaint in my despair Shall I offer first? And didst thou spurn me, in thy death? Thou shouldst instead have bidden me to share thy fate; The selfsame moment should have reft the lives of both. And with these impious hands did I thine altar rear, And with this voice unto our country’s gods appeal, That, heartless, I might fail thee in this final hour? O sister, here hast thou destroyed thyself and me, Thy people, thy Sidonian fathers and thy realm. With soothing water let me bathe her flowing wounds, And if there hovers on her lips the fleeting breath, With my own lips I claim it in the kiss of death. The sailors’ chorus sounds in the distance. Aroused by this, the dying queen half raises herself upon the couch. The servants throw open the casement and the Trojan ships are seen far away, sailing off over the sea. Dido falls back lifeless. Curtain. MUSIC SONGS PAGE PRELUDE 57 The authors are indebted to Professor A. A. Stanley of the University of Michigan for the accompaniment to this air. HYMN TO THE DAWN 61 INVOCATION 69 SONG OF IOPAS 72 SLUMBER SONG 81 PRELUDE To be sung in unison before the curtain. [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] HYMN TO THE DAWN ACT I. SCENE 1 Chorus of Carthaginian Maidens [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] INVOCATION ACT I. SCENE 3 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] SONG OF IOPAS ACT I. SCENE 3 Adapted from Chopin, Nocturne in G minor [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] SLUMBER SONG ACT IV. SCENE 3 Chorus of Maidens Words from Tasso; Ger. Lib. II. 96 [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration] II The Fall of Troy