Come rugiada al cespite
This expressive number is followed by one in faster time, "O tu, che l'alma adora" (O thou toward whom, adoring soul).
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O tu, che l'alma adora, Vien, vien, la mia vita infiora, |
Enthusiastically volunteering to share any danger Ernani may incur in seeking to carry off Elvira, the bandits, with their chief at their head, go off in the direction of Silva's castle.
The scene changes to Elvira's apartment in the castle. It is night. She is meditating upon Ernani. When she thinks of Silva, "the frozen, withered spectre," and contrasts with him Ernani, who "in her heart ever reigneth," she voices her thoughts in that famous air for sopranos, one of Verdi's loveliest inspirations, "Ernani! involami" (Ernani! fly with me).
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