Giacomo Puccini
Madame Butterfly
Act 2; One fine day

Weeping? And why? And why?
Ah, this faith you are lacking.
Hear me.
One fine day we'll notice,
athread of smoke arising on the sea,
In the far horizon.
And then the ship appearing,
then the trim white vessel,
glides into the harbour.
Thunders forth her cannon.
See you? Now he is coming.
I do not go to meet him,
not I. I'll stay upon the brow of the hillock,
and wait there.
And wait for a long time.
But never weary of the long waiting.
From out the crowded city,
there is coming a man,
A little speck in the distance,
Climbing the hillock.
Can you guess who it is?
And when he's reached the summit,
Can you guess what he'll say?
He will call, "Butterfly" from the distance.
I, without answering, hold myself quietly concealed.
A bit to tease him and a bit, so as not to die at our first meeting.
And then, a little troubled,
he will call, he will call "Dear baby wife of mine, Dear little orange blossom".
The names he used to call me when he came here.
This will all come to pass as I tell you.
Banish your idle fears,
for he will return.
Return.

Enjoy

Deanna Durbin als Constance Harding in Henry Koster' First Love (1939) Het is bijna valentijnsdag. De dag van de liefde. De mooiste en gevaarlijkste dag van het jaar.