Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
D major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
A tempo ordinario |
Length |
83 measures |
English text |
|---|
Chorus |
May God, from whom all mercies spring, |
Bless the true church, and save the king! |
With firm united hearts we all |
Will conquer in his cause, or fall. |
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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