From L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55, Part III, Il Moderato
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
B flat major → d minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
8 measures |
English text |
|---|
Bass |
Hence, boast not, ye profane, |
Of vainly-fancied, little-tasted pleasure, |
Pursued beyond all measure, |
And by its own excess transform’d to pain. |
Opera Stanford |
Based on the poetry of John Milton
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