From Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
F major |
Meter |
3/8 |
Tempo |
Andante |
English text |
|---|
Nitocris |
The leafy honours of the field, |
Before the furious driving wind, |
In giddy dissipation fly. |
To noise and folly forc’d to yield, |
The fair ideas quit the mind, |
And lost in wild confusion lie. |
The leafy honours… |
Opera Stanford |
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