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D'amor sull'ali rosee
It is followed by the "Miserere," which was for many years and perhaps still is the world over the most popular of all melodies from opera, although at the present time it appears to have been superseded by the "Intermezzo" from "Cavalleria Rusticana."
The "Miserere" is chanted by a chorus within.
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Against this as a sombre background are projected the heart-broken ejaculations of Leonora.
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Then Manrico's voice in the tower intones "Ah! che la morte ognora" (Ah! how death still delayeth).