From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part I, L’Allegro
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
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Key |
D major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Andante allegro |
Length |
73 measures |
English text |
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Soprano |
Or let the merry bells ring round, |
And the jocund rebecks sound |
To many a youth, and many a maid, |
Dancing in the checquer’d shade. |
Chorus |
And young and old come forth to play
On a sunshine holiday,
Till the livelong daylight fail.
Thus past the day, to bed they creep,
By whisp’ring winds soon lull’d asleep. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton