NORMA
(Oh what memories! I too
Felt that when I first saw his face.)


ADALGISA
But you are not listening to me?


NORMA
Yes, go on.


ADALGISA
Secretly, alone at the temple

I often waited for him.
Every day the fire of love
Burned with a greater flame.


NORMA
(I too

Felt that: her enchantment is like mine.)

ADALGISA

"Come," he would say, "let me
Throw myself at your feet.
Let me breathe the breath

Of your sweet sighs,
Give me the curls
Of your hair to kiss."


NORMA
(Oh dear words!

So my lover spoke to me -
Opening the way to my heart.)


ADALGISA
His words were sweet to me
As the music of a harp;

In his eyes I thought to find
A new, a lovelier sun.


NORMA
(Her enchantment is like mine).


ADALGISA
I was lost, I still am lost.


NORMA
Ah, do not weep.


ADALGISA
I need your forgiveness.


NORMA
I shall have pity.


ADALGISA
Ah, you are my staff, my guide.


NORMA
Ah, do not weep.


ADALGISA
Comfort me or reproach me,
Save me from myself,

Save me from my own heart.

NORMA

Ah ' do not weep: you are not yet bound
To the altar by an eternal knot.


ADALGISA
Repeat, oh heaven, repeat
The joyous words:


NORMA
Yes ? take heart, embrace me.

I forgive you and weep for you.
From your vows I free you,
I break the sacred bonds.
You shall live happy, forever,
Close to the man you love...


ADALGISA
Repeat, oh heaven, repeat
The joyous words:
Through you is quieted

The terrible torment.
You have given me life again,
If my love is not a sin.

NORMA

You shall live happy, forever,
Close to the man you love.