Patience: If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line-Glyndebourne Festival Chorus

[ti:Patience: If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line] [ar:Glyndebourne Festival Chorus] [al:Gilbert & Sullivan: The Highlights] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Patience: If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line - Glyndebourne Festival Chorus [00:09.61]If you're anxious for to shine [00:11.46]In the high aesthetic line [00:12.96]As a man of culture rare [00:15.83]You must get up all the germs [00:17.58]Of the transcendental terms [00:19.18]And plant them everywhere [00:21.53] [00:22.28]You must lie upon the daisies [00:23.75]And discourse in novel phrases [00:25.18]Of your complicated state of mind [00:28.15]The meaning doesn't matter [00:30.05]If it's only idle chatter [00:31.51]Of a transcendental kind [00:34.28] [00:36.23]And everyone will say [00:39.34]As you walk your mystic way [00:42.35]If this young man expresses himself [00:45.44]In terms too deep for me [00:48.50]Why what a very singularly deep young man [00:51.48]This deep young man must be [00:54.43] [01:00.56]Be eloquent in praise [01:02.37]Of the very dull old days [01:03.83]Which have long since passed away [01:06.69]And convince them if you can [01:08.62]That the reign of good Queen Anne [01:10.13]Was Culture's palmiest day [01:12.64] [01:13.28]Of course you will pooh-pooh [01:14.75]Whatever may be fresh and new [01:16.43]And declare it's crude and mean [01:19.20]For art stopped short in the cultivated court [01:22.66]Of the Empress Josephine [01:25.41] [01:27.30]And everyone will say [01:29.86] [01:30.39]As you walk your mystic way [01:33.55]If that's not good enough for him [01:36.59]Which is good enough for me [01:39.76]Why what a very cultivated kind of youth [01:42.83]This kind of youth must be [01:46.07] [01:51.97]Then a sentimental passion [01:53.89]Of a vegetable fashion [01:55.24]Must excite your languid spleen [01:58.22]An attachment a la Plato [02:00.02]For a bashful young potato [02:01.55]Or a not too French French bean [02:04.72]Though the Philistines may jostle [02:06.15]You will rank as an apostle [02:07.56]In the high aesthetic band [02:10.37]If you walk down Piccadilly [02:12.26]With a poppy or a lily [02:13.74]In your medieval hand [02:16.53] [02:18.42]And everyone will say [02:21.44]As you walk your flowery way [02:24.55]If he's content with a vegetable love [02:27.56]Which would certainly not suit me [02:30.24] [02:30.76]Why what a most particularly pure young man [02:34.58]This pure young man must be