From Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene X
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
d minor → A major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
21 measures |
English text |
|---|
Saul |
Where is the son of Jesse? Comes he not |
To grace our feast? |
Jonathan |
He earnestly ask’d leave |
To go to Bethlem, where his father’s house, |
At solemn rites of annual sacrifice, |
Requir’d his presence. |
Saul |
O perverse, rebellious! |
Thinkst thou I do not know that thou hast chose |
The son of Jesse to thy own confusion? |
The world will say thou art no son of mine, |
Who thus canst love the man I hate; the man |
Who, if he lives, will rob thee of thy crown: |
Send, fetch him thither; for the wretch must die. |
Jonathan |
What has he done? And wherefore must he die? |
Saul |
Darest thou oppose my will? Die then thyself! |
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