From Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
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Key |
g minor → G major |
Meter |
4/4 |
English text |
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Babylonians |
Help, help the king! He faints, he dies! |
What envious demon blasts our joys, |
And into sorrow turns? |
Look up, O king! Speak, cheer thy friends! |
Say, why our mirth thus sudden ends, |
And the gay circle mourns? |
Belshazzar |
Behold! See there! |
Babylonians |
Oh, dire portentous signt! But see, ‘tis gone, |
And leaves behind it types unknown, |
Perhaps some stern decree of fate, |
Big with the ruin of our state! |
What God, or godlike man, can tell |
The sense of this mysterious spell? |
Opera Stanford |
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