Viens Mallika

English Libretto or Translation:

LAKME
(Cheerful)
Come, Mallika, the vines in bloom
Already cast their shadow
On the sacred stream flowing, calm and dark,
Awakened by the song of the boisterous birds!

MALLIKA
Oh! mistress,
It's time I see you smile,
The blessed hour where I can read
in the still closed heart of Lakmé!

LAKME
Thick dome jasmine,
At the rose assembles,
Fresh flowering shore in the morning,
We call together.
Ah! slide next
The current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Let's win the edge,
Where the bird sings, the bird, the bird sings.
Thick dome, jasmine white,
Call us together!

MILLIKA
Under the thick dome, where the jasmine white
At the rose assembles,
On the bank in blooming laughing in the morning,
Come, let's go down together.
Gently gliding
From its charming flow
Let's follow the current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Come, win the edge,
Where the source is sleeping
And the bird, the bird sings.
Under a dome,
Under the jasmine white,
Ah! let's go down together!

LAKME
But, I do not know what sudden fear,
Take hold of me,
When my father goes alone to their cursed city;
I tremble, I tremble with terror!

MALLIKA
Why the God Ganeça protects him,
Up to the pond where frolic
Swans with snow wings,
Let's go pick the blue lotus.

LAKME
Yes, near the swans to the eves of meige,
Let's go pick the blue lotus.
Together

LAKME
Thick dome jasmine,
At the rose assembles,
Fresh flowering shore in the morning,
We call together.
Ah! slide next
The current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Let's win the edge,
Where the bird sings, the bird, the bird sings.
Thick dome, jasmine white,
Call us together!

MALLIKA
Under the thick dome, where the jasmine white
At the rose assembles,
On the bank in blooming laughing in the morning,
Come, let's go down together.
Gently gliding
From its charming flow
Let's follow the current running away:
In the quivering one,
With a nonchalant hand,
Come, win the edge,
Where the source is sleeping
And the bird, the bird sings.
Under a dome,
Under the jasmine white,
Ah! let's go down together!
(They go back slowly to the boat moored in the reeds.)
(Lakmé and Mallika get on the boat that is moving away.)