From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part III
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
G major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Allegro → adagio → a tempo |
Length |
128 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
When warlike ensigns wave on high, |
And trumpets pierce the vaulted sky, |
The frighted peasant sees his field |
For corn and iron harvest yield. |
No pasture now the plain affords, |
And scythes are straighten’d into swords. |
Be calm, and Heav’n will soon dispose |
To future good our present woes. |
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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