Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
E flat major → c minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
9 measures |
English text |
|---|
Samson |
Why by an angel was my birth foretold, |
As in a fiery column ascending |
From off the altar, in my parents’ sight? |
As of a person separate to God? |
If I must die, betray’d and captiv’d thus, |
The scorn and gaze of foes? Oh, cruel thought! |
My griefs find no redress! They inward prey, |
Like gangren’d wounds, immedicable grown. |
Opera Stanford |
After John Milton’s dramatic poem, Samson Agonistes.
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