Original subtitles

Come, Mallika, the flowering lianas

Already cast a shadow

Over the sacred stream

Which runs calm and dark

Awoken by the song

Of the noisy birds!

Oh, mistress

It is the hour when I can look on your smile

The blessed hour when I can see into

The ever-closed heart

Of Lakmé!

A dense dome - Under the dense dome

Of jasmine - Where white jasmine

And roses cling together - And roses cling together

Flowery waterside - On to the flowering waterside

And fresh morning - Smiling in the morning

Together call us - Come, let us descend

Ah, let us glide - Let us glide softly

As we follow - On its charming swell

The fleeting current - Let us follow the fleeting current

Among the trembling waves - Among the trembling waves

Blithely steering - Blithely steering

Let us gain the shore - Come, let us reach the shore

Where the spring sleeps

Where a bird is singing - And a bird is singing

A dense dome - Under the dense dome

Of jasmine - Where white jasmine

Together call us! - Ah, let us descend together!

But a strange fear suddenly grips me

When my father goes alone into their accursed town

I tremble, I tremble with fright!

So that the god Ganesh may protect him

Let us go down to the pool where the swans splash joyfully

Their wings white as snow

To gather blue lotus blossoms

Yes, down near the swans with their snow-white wings

Let us go to gather blue lotus blossoms...

A dense dome - Under the dense dome

Of jasmine - Where white jasmine

And roses cling together - And roses cling together

Flowery waterside - On to the flowering waterside

And fresh morning - Smiling in the morning

Together call us - Come, let us descend

Ah, let us glide - Let us glide softly

As we follow - On its charming swell

The fleeting current - Let us follow the fleeting current

Among the trembling waves - Among the trembling waves

Blithely steering - Blithely steering

Let us gain the shore - Come, let us reach the shore

Where the spring sleeps

Where a bird is singing - And a bird is singing

A dense dome - Under the dense dome

Of jasmine - Where white jasmine

Together call us! - Ah, let us descend together!