From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
E major |
Meter |
3/4 |
Tempo |
Larghetto → Allegro |
Length |
202 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Be wise at length, ye kings averse, |
Be taught, ye judges of the earth, |
With fear Jehovah serve. |
Chorus |
Be wise at length, ye kings averse, |
Be taught, ye judges of the earth, |
With fear Jehovah serve; or brought full low, |
With iron scepter bruis’d, and then dispers’d, |
Scatter’d like sheep, ye perish in your way. |
Opera Stanford |
“After the poetry of John Milton and Edmund Spenser.
The work was written in the midst of the Jacobite rising of 1745–1746.” Wikipedia
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