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- Announcer:
- The most honored and exalted excellencies,
the three good fairies.
Mistress Flora,
mistress Fauna,
and mistress Merryweather.
- Fairies:
- [at the cradle]
Oh, the little darling!
[to the king]
Your majesties,
- Flora:
- Each of us the child may bless
with a single gift.
No more, no less.
[at the cradle]
Little princess,
my gift shall be the gift of beauty.
- Choir:
- One gift, beauty rare
Full of sunshine in her hair
Lips that shame the red red rose
She'll walk with springtime
Wherever she goes
- Fauna:
- Tiny princess,
my gift shall be the gift of song.
- Choir:
- One gift, the gift of song
Melody her whole life long
The nightingale's her troubadour
Bringing her sweet serenade
to her door
- Merryweather:
- Sweet princess,
my gift shall be ...
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