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Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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w ere she prayeth, Demons of ill, what is in store!Chorus of Demons: Marguerite!Marguerite (faintly) : Who calls me?Demons: Marguerite!Marguerite (terrified) : I falter—afraid! Oh! save me from myself! Has even now the hour of torture begun! Mephistopheles (taunting her): Recollect the old time, when the angels, caressing,Did teach thee to pray.Recollect how thou earnest to ask for a blessingAt the dawn of the day!When thy feet did fall back, and thy breath it did falterAs though to ask for aid;Recollect thou wast then of the rite and the altarIn thine innocence afraid!And now be glad and hearThy playmates do claim thee from below, to their home!The worm to welcome thee, the fire to warm thee,Wait but till thou shalt come! 142 VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-GOUNODS FAUST As this terrible prophecy is heard from the invisible Evil Spirit, Marguerite is terrified. Scene de LEglise (II) (Church Scene, Part II) By Geraldine Farrar, Soprano; Marcel Journet, Bass; and Metropolitan Opera Chorus
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PAINTED BY MARGUERITE AND THE TEMPTER (In French) 89037 12-inch, $4-00 The unhappy girl, almost over-come, cries out wildly: Ah! what sound in the gloom,Is beneath me, around me?Angels of wrath? is this your sen-tence of cruel doom? Then as the chorale is heardfrom within the church, she endeavorsto break the encircling Satanic spelland kneels again in prayer. Choir (within the church) : When the book shall be unsealed, When the future be revealed, What frail mortal shall not yield?Marguerite: And I, the frailest of the frail, Have most need of Thy forgiveness!Mephistopheles : No! Let them pray, let them weep! But thy sin is deep, too deep, To hope forgiveness! No!Choir: Where shall human sinner be, How lie hid in earth and sea, To escape eternity?Marguerite (wildly): Ah, the hymn is around and above me, It bindeth a cord round my brow!Mephistopheles: Farewell, thy friends who love thee! And thy guardians above thee! The past is done! the payment now!Marguerite and Choir: O Thou! on T

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