《Patience: If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line》歌词

歌曲： Patience: If You’re Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line

所属专辑：Gilbert & Sullivan: The Highlights

歌手： Glyndebourne Festival Cho

时长： 02:48

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Patience: If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line - Glyndebourne Festival Chorus[00:00:00]

If you're anxious for to shine[00:00:09]

In the high aesthetic line[00:00:11]

As a man of culture rare[00:00:12]

You must get up all the germs[00:00:15]

Of the transcendental terms[00:00:17]

And plant them everywhere[00:00:19]

You must lie upon the daisies[00:00:22]

And discourse in novel phrases[00:00:23]

Of your complicated state of mind[00:00:25]

The meaning doesn't matter[00:00:28]

If it's only idle chatter[00:00:30]

Of a transcendental kind[00:00:31]

And everyone will say[00:00:36]

As you walk your mystic way[00:00:39]

If this young man expresses himself[00:00:42]

In terms too deep for me[00:00:45]

Why what a very singularly deep young man[00:00:48]

This deep young man must be[00:00:51]

Be eloquent in praise[00:01:00]

Of the very dull old days[00:01:02]

Which have long since passed away[00:01:03]

And convince them if you can[00:01:06]

That the reign of good Queen Anne[00:01:08]

Was Culture's palmiest day[00:01:10]

Of course you will pooh-pooh[00:01:13]

Whatever may be fresh and new[00:01:14]

And declare it's crude and mean[00:01:16]

For art stopped short in the cultivated court[00:01:19]

Of the Empress Josephine[00:01:22]

And everyone will say[00:01:27]

As you walk your mystic way[00:01:30]

If that's not good enough for him[00:01:33]

Which is good enough for me[00:01:36]

Why what a very cultivated kind of youth[00:01:39]

This kind of youth must be[00:01:42]

Then a sentimental passion[00:01:51]

Of a vegetable fashion[00:01:53]

Must excite your languid spleen[00:01:55]

An attachment a la Plato[00:01:58]

For a bashful young potato[00:02:00]

Or a not too French French bean[00:02:01]

Though the Philistines may jostle[00:02:04]

You will rank as an apostle[00:02:06]

In the high aesthetic band[00:02:07]

If you walk down Piccadilly[00:02:10]

With a poppy or a lily[00:02:12]

In your medieval hand[00:02:13]

And everyone will say[00:02:18]

As you walk your flowery way[00:02:21]

If he's content with a vegetable love[00:02:24]

Which would certainly not suit me[00:02:27]

Why what a most particularly pure young man[00:02:30]

This pure young man must be[00:02:34]