From Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act III
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
g minor → g sharp minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
English text |
|---|
Nitocris |
Fain would I hope. It cannot surely be. |
Daniel |
Oh, that it could not! But if I may judge |
The future by the past, it were vain flatt’ry |
To bid you hope for his conversion. |
Opera Stanford |
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