From Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
B flat major → D major |
Meter |
4/4 |
English text |
|---|
Nitocris |
O king, live for ever! |
Let not thy heart its wonted courage lose, |
Nor let thy countenance be chang’d with fear, |
Though all thy wise men fail thee, in the kingdom |
There is a man, among the Jewish captives, |
In whom the Holy Spirit of God resides, |
And in thy grandsire Nebuchadnezzar’s day |
Wisdom, like that of God, was found in him, |
By which he could interpret mystic dreams, |
Explain hard sentences, dissolve all doubts: |
Daniel his native name, but by the king |
Nam’d Belteshazzar. Let him now be call’d, |
He’ll read the writing, and interpret it. |
Opera Stanford |
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