From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part II
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
b minor |
Meter |
3/4 |
Tempo |
Larghetto → adagio → a tempo |
Length |
112 measures |
English text |
|---|
Tenor |
He has His mansion fix’d on high |
Above the reach of mortal eye, |
Who by His wisdom did create |
The painted skies so full of state; |
And did the solid earth ordain |
To rise above the wat’ry plain, |
Who, by his all-commanding might, |
Did fill the new-made world with light, |
Then cause the golden-tressed sun, |
And the horn’d moon, their course to run. |
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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