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Excerpt from Fairyland: An Opera in Three Acts
Rosamund, a novice, from the Abbey balcony beholds the young king Auburn riding across the Valley, and falls a-longing for life and for him. But he, scorning the kingdom that has been too easily his own, would fain go a pilgrimage. He leaves his crown, not to Corvain his brother, but to the Abbess MyrieL Corvain therefore steals upon Auburn while he prays before the shrine, strikes him down, and leaves him for dead. But Auburn, reviving, finds himself among Fairies, and within the shrine not Our Lady but his own lady Rosamund; and they two are crowned King and Queen in a vision of Fairyland.
Auburn being gone, Corvain by force seizes upon the kingdom; which Myriel claims also; so each takes tribute from the people, who are grievously oppressed thereby. Rosamund, fleeing from the Abbey in search of Auburn, falls into the power of Corvain.
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