From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, L’Allegro
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
d minor |
Meter |
12/8 |
Tempo |
Siciliana |
Length |
20 measures |
English text |
|---|
L’Allegro (tenor or soprano) |
Let me wander, not unseen |
By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green. |
There the ploughman, near at hand, |
Whistles over the furrow’d land, |
And the milkmaid singeth blithe, |
And the mower whets his scythe, |
And every shepherd tells his tale |
Under the hawthorn in the dale. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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