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Document Type

Score

Publication Date

1841

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Ah! Dearest Once More Returning
Ah! Bello A Me Ritorno
Cavatina from Bellini's Celebrated Opera of Norma
Sung by Madme. Sutton
Translated from the Italian of Romani and adapted to the original score as performed in Europe by Henry Edward Sutton.
Transposed & arranged for the piano forte by Edward Woolf, Director of the Muic National Theatre Phil.

Philadelphia. Published by Geo. W. Hewitt & Co. 184 Chestnut St.

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Lyrics

Ah! Dearest once more returning,
Renew thy faithful love to me,
The entire world then spurning
A shield to thee I'll be.
Ah! dearest once more returning
With those fond looks serene,
Thy heart new life confering
My home and heaven will have
Heaven will have within.

Ah! dearest once more returning,
Renew thy faithful love to me,
The entire world then spurning
A shield to thee I'll be.
Ah! dearest once more returning
With those fond looks serene
My life to thy heart turning its earth
and heaven will have
heaven will have within.

Ah! smile once more as in that happy hour
When to thee this heart resign'd its power
in that hour as in that hour
Ah! smile once more as in that happy hour
When to thee this heart resign'd its power
in that hour in that hour ah when ah when
this heart resign'd its power ah smile once more.

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