From Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
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Key |
F major → A major |
Meter |
4/4 |
English text |
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Cyrus |
You see, my friends, a path into the city |
Lies open. Fearless let us enter, knowing |
That those we are to cope with are the same |
We have already conquer’d, strengthen’d then |
With aid of great and numerous allies, |
Wakeful and sober, rank’d in just array; |
Now all asleep, or drunk, at best disorder’d — |
A helpless state! Still worse, when they shall hear |
We are within their walls. |
Opera Stanford |
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