Acis and Galatea, HWV 49a, Act II: Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight (Galatea)
Ovid, John Gay, George Frideric Handel
Heart, the seat of soft delight,
Be thou now a fountain bright!
Purple be no more thy blood,
Glide thou like a crystal flood.
Rock, thy hollow womb disclose!
The bubbling fountain, lo! it flows
Through the plains he joys to rove,
Murm'ring still his gentle love.
