From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, L’Allegro
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
G major |
Meter |
3/4 |
Tempo |
Andante |
Length |
69 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, |
While the landscape round it measures |
Russet lawns, and fallows grey, |
Where the nibbling flocks do stray. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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