If You're Anxious For To Shine-Syria Lamonte/Miss Marwood

[ti:If You're Anxious For To Shine] [ar:Syria Lamonte] [al:Gilbert & Sullivan: The Early Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If You're Anxious For To Shine (from 'Patience', Act 1) - Syria Lamonte/Miss Marwood [00:09.43]If you're anxious for to shine [00:11.59]In the high aesthetic line [00:13.44]As a man of culture rare [00:15.56] [00:16.11]You must get up all the germs [00:18.11]Of the transcendental terms [00:19.77]And plant them everywhere [00:21.78] [00:22.43]You must lie upon the daisies [00:24.27]And discourse in novel phrases [00:25.92]Of your complicated state of mind; [00:28.40]The meaning doesn't matter [00:30.65]If it's only idle chatter [00:31.99]Of a transcendental kind [00:34.30] [00:36.44]And everyone will say [00:39.36]As you walk your mystic way [00:42.23]If this young man expresses himself [00:45.08]In terms too deep for me [00:47.52] [00:48.08]Why what a very singularly deep young man [00:51.04]This deep young man must be [00:53.75] [00:59.01]Be eloquent in praise [01:00.66]Of the very dull old days [01:02.44]Which have long since passed away [01:04.53] [01:05.13]And convince them [01:06.30]If you can [01:06.90]That the reign of good queen Anne [01:08.50]Was culture's palmiest day [01:10.99]Of course you will pooh-pooh [01:13.10]Whatever's fresh and new [01:14.63]And declare it's crude and mean [01:17.06]For Art stopped short [01:19.24]In the cultivated court [01:20.48]Of the Empress Josephine [01:22.92] [01:24.75]And everyone will say [01:27.08] [01:27.75]As you walk your mystic way [01:30.02] [01:30.65]If that's not good enough for him [01:33.68]Which is good enough for me [01:36.48]Why what a very cultivated kind of youth [01:39.39]This kind of youth must be [01:42.03] [01:47.22]Then a sentimental passion [01:48.99]Of a vegetable fashion [01:50.30]Must excite your languid spleen [01:53.00]An attachment a la Plato [01:55.19]For a bashful young potato [01:56.80]Or a not too French French bean [01:59.28]Though the Philistines may jostle [02:01.23]You will rank as an apostle [02:02.90]In the high aesthetic band [02:04.93] [02:05.66]If you walk down Piccadilly [02:07.33]With a poppy or a lily [02:09.08]In your medieval hand [02:11.03] [02:13.12]And everyone will say [02:15.63] [02:16.34]As you walk your flowery way [02:18.59] [02:19.14]If he's content with a vegetable love [02:22.31]Which would certainly not suit me [02:24.18] [02:24.86]Why what a most particularly pure young man [02:28.64]This pure young man must be