From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
A major |
Meter |
3/4 |
Tempo |
Andante larghetto |
Length |
220 measures |
English text |
|---|
Tenor |
Jehovah is my shield, my glory, |
Him through my story |
Th’exalter of my head I count. |
Aloud I cried, |
He soon replied, |
And heard me from his holy mount. |
I lay and slept, and wak’d again, |
The Lord himself did me sustain. |
Jehovah is my shield… |
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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