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Fairies and Pirates

"Triumph of Love."

(Air: Bridal March in "Lohengrin.")

Fairies:

Triumph of love! Soon they'll be wed!

Sensible mortal! He's taking a wife!

Pirates:

Sorrowful day! Count him as dead!

Blindly submitting to bondage for life!

Fairies:Now with her conquest leave her alone! Pirates:Useless to tell him he ought to have known! Fairies:Men we subdue, we rout them in battle! Pirates:Fleece us like sheep, and drive us like cattle! Fairies:Ours is the vict'ry! Ours is the will! Pirates:Heaven be thanked! We're bachelors still!