Ieri son salita tutta sola

English Libretto or Translation:

BUTTERFLY
with respectful confidence in Pinkerton
Yesterday I climbed all alone in secret to the Mission.
With my new life I can adopt a new religion.
With fear
Uncle Bonzo does not know, nor mine know it.
I follow my destiny
and full of humility,
to Mr. Pinkerton's God I bow.
It is my destiny.
In the same little church kneeling with you I will
pray to the same God.
And to make you happy I will perhaps be able to oblate my people.
he throws himself into the arms of Pinkerton
My love!
He stops as if he were afraid of having been heard by relatives.
Meanwhile, Goro has opened the shosi - in the room where everything is ready for the wedding, Sharpless and the authorities are found - Butterfly enters the house and kneels; Pinkerton is standing next to her - relatives are in the garden facing the house, kneeling.