Cease your song and take your flight;
Bring back my Acis to my sight.”
Acis answers her, after a short recitative, with another aria equally graceful (“Love in her Eyes sits playing and sheds delicious Death”). The melodious and sensuous dialogue is continued by Galatea, who once more sings:—
“As when the dove
Laments her love
All on the naked spray;
When he returns
No more she mourns,
But loves the live-long day.
Billing, cooing,