From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, Il Penseroso
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
B flat major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Largo e piano |
Structure |
C |
Length |
39 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Oft on a plat of rising ground, |
I hear the far-off curfew sound, |
Over some wide-water’d shore, |
Swinging slow, with sullen roar; |
Or if the air will not permit, |
Some still removed place will fit, |
Where glowing embers through the room |
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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