from Act I, Scene 2 of the English opera The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore

Libretto: John Latouche

Role: Horace Tabor, mayor of Leadville and owner of the Matchless Mine, married to Augusta

Voice Part: baritone       Fach: lyric baritone

Setting: outside of the Clarendon Hotel, Leadville, Colorado, 1880

Synopsis: Tabor has just overheard Baby Doe singing. He introduces himself and tells her that her beautiful singing made him think of his own youth and what he left behind when he came out to Colorado from New Hampshire. He implies tenderly that he could find some of these lost things again in her.