In Durance Vile 1here Must I Wake

Now's The Day And Now's The Hour.

When Chill November's Surly Blast Made Fields And Forests Bare.

Dare To Be Honest And Fear No Labor. ... Opera Is Where A Man Gets Stabbed In The Back, And Instead Of Dying, He Sings.

Critics! Those Cut-throat Bandits In The Paths Of Fame.

Morality, Thou Deadly Bane,thy Tens O' Thousands Thou Has Slain!