What have I done that you should turn away? Is there no one to lift the heavy stone from my buried hope? No one to tell me why the long night will not end? If you need the full libretto or a PDF of the piano-vocal score, try searching on , Internet Archive , or academic databases using the exact phrase "The Consul" Menotti libretto PDF . Many university opera departments also host public-domain or educational excerpts.

To this we've come. That men withhold the sun from their brothers and the earth gives us birth only to bury us. Oh, the vain science and the tongue of wisdom that never taught us how to find the key of our own heart.