1. Agony: Reprise [ Contents ]
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3. CP: High in a tower--
4. Like yours was, but higher--
5. A beauty asleep.
6. All 'round the tower,
7. A thicket of briar
8. A hundred feet deep.
9. Agony! No frustration more keen,
10. When the one thing you want
11. Is a thing that you've not even seen.
12. RP: I've found a casket
13. Entirely of glass--
14. No, it's unbreakable.
15. Inside--don't ask it--
16. A maiden, alas,
17. Just as unwakeable--
18. Both: What unmistakable agony! Is the way always barred?
19. RP: She has skin white as snow--
20. CP: Did you learn her name?
21. RP: No, there's a dwarf standing guard.
22. Both: Agony! Such that princes must weep!
23. Always in thrall most
24. To anything almost,
25. Or something asleep.
26. CP: If it were not for the thicket--
27. RP: A thicket's no trick. Is it thick?
28. CP: It's the thickest.
29. RP: The quickest is pick it apart with a stick--
30. CP: Yes, but even one prick--
31. It's my thing about blood.
32. RP: Well, it's sick!
33. CP: It's no sicker than your thing with dwarves.
34. RP: Dwarves.
35. CP: Dwarves...
36. RP: Dwarves are very upsetting.
37. Both: Not forgetting the tasks unachievable,
38. Mountains unscalable--
39. If it's conceivable
40. But unavailable,
41. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah--
42. Agony!
43. CP: Misery!
44. RP: Woe!
45. Both: Not to know what you miss.
46. CP: While they lie there for years--
47. RP: And you cry on their biers--
48. Both: What unbearable bliss!
49. Agony, that can cut like a knife!
50. Ah well, back to my wife...