The Dandy

Pierrot with countenance waxen
Stands musing and thinks
How he tonight will paint

A phantasmagorial light ray illumines tonight,
A phantasmagorial light ray illumines tonight

Rejecting the red and the green of the east
He bedaubs all his face in the latest of styles...

(With a phantasmagorial moonbeam...)

A phantasmagorial light ray illumines tonight,
A phantasmagorial light ray illumines tonight

(A phantasmagorial light ray
Illumines tonight all the crystalline... fasks...)

On the holy, sacred, ebony wash-stand
Of the taciturn dandy of Bergamo
In sonorous bronze-enwrought chalice
Laughs brightly the fountain’s
Metallic sound...

On the holy, sacred, ebony wash-stand...
Of the taciturn dandy of Bergamo...
In sonorous bronze-enwrought chalice...
Laughs brightly the fountain’s...
Metallic sound...