The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-11
When damsel meets with lighting

She always effects disdain;
Sfe always b9rates him, pretends that
She hates him,
Ara daunts him and f1aunts him; but
finally mates him,
That is, If he can give check to her
BY Showing her scorning is ali in vaia;
For the lighting man is the proper sort.
To win the heart Of the damsels.
Ieu me the naming if you can,
or the phrase so feeble, "a fighting
lighting man. a fighting man
lWhen danger threa tened away he ran)
He's quick with blade he's never afraid
CAT lease when he meets u defenseiess
Hos never amiss with a smile or kiss
tAnd he's often rewarded about like thsy
REFRAIN.
A fighting man, a fighting man.
Hes built upon natures finest plan;
friend in a braWl
beau at a ball.
On, the world bows down to a fighting
man.
Here IS the song of THE Wood Nynna
end the water Cod, sung by tho prin.
cess while disguised as peasant Girl
in scheme to win the heart of the
duke:
a wood nymph lived in an old oak tree
On rivers bank-in a forest fair,
and once on time she CHANGED TO see
= river god in the waters there.
she thrilled as she looked on his noble
- Her love she voiced in a Joyous song
AND ne was enrapmred with her :sra;.s
ana Worshlpped her from the reeds
among.
Poor little nymph in her old oak tree,
TooI river god in the crystal wave
lie would have joyed in the wood to be
\ ha NO
POOR wood nymph and the river god
VIVA could they do? What could they
7 }Eil love to him did she sweeuy give,
us passion for her was plain TO see
B0t only IN water could he live
And She in the heart of an old oak tree
% she ne, plned and pinned with many
And .e 5eart ached 50, with each pass
That m .5k tree plying her did die.
And thus the wood nymph passed away
Poor little nymph in her old oak tree
10 Ioar niue god IN the crystal wave:
re would have joyed in the wood to be
anu she in the wafer cool to love
Joor wood nymph, ana river good too
Nh3t could they do? What could they
One of the most gemful numbers Of the
opera is written to the following words
OIL The principal contralto song entitled
he Love Light of Your Eyes:
II ] might tell you all my heart dotb
The pent-up passion of my soul for Won
ae59hl make one earnest fond APP
And Whisper that I would be ever
true; O'Ol
Then earth heav'n would seem to me,
d glory in that paradise.
II Tor one moment I could see
The love light in your ewes
In your dear eyes.
] might kneel before You and confess
T. &c neCTet mat cherish in my heart:
L ~, anI ,s take YOU in my arms ana press
me KISS upon your lips before we part
N.usht could be left for me to know.
NaGTi ,l more Of rapture meath the
If sweetjy there might come and 90
ihe love light in your eyes.
IN your dear eyes
The little coquette has q la,,o, 90
course, and he talks of MARRYING ana
nNleg happily ever after She laughs ~
Hllh' ana ne insists that she has heard
OF such tn .ngs Her reply is that e[,sr.,,
nody mas heaid OF such things, but oniv
in story books. 0''iS
- SI b9a1.o net a maiden with eyes of
once IN a story book
ON, such a story book
anu III hsr ear he whispered Love, I
> loVe but you,
once in a story book
lLoVeiy little story hook
'''' t i,.ey no Wefe welded merrily and all
1"e' h We. together happily for ever and
once Once. once in a story Do,l,
REFRAIN.
You say twas in a story hook
J. )" as surely in = SfDT1- boolys
ne common COMMON kind OF story book who're
nothing ever true. "leIe
We heard Of such n story boil
nv, There's surely such a sto orr hook
1I-Slt HQthinS 10 absurd f6. fojIrI
'Hllh or say or do. u
Hot nobody mol knows what happened after
1t isn't in the story book
at isn't in the story bo@Iq
5 a0ISiPl ped IN society they had an
dts never in the story boob,
vi c4 ,si@s l. Ike to fancy that no such
'"' s s2GshG% wdul TS99l( like to he quite
once once once in 4 story book
III
Some day il may happen, at least have
T There be different story book.
But VIII they live in happiness or ,vic1,
eddy elope, WIN
I 81, ms very modern story book,
ttlh-de-siecle story book.)
Ana %lll there be scandal and also a
And will they marry some one else or
perish of remoISe u
in this realistic. pessimisttc story book?
REFRAIN.
You're speaking of a story book
"a very curious story hook
most unusual story book, where every
thing is true,