From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
a minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Largo |
Length |
42 measures |
English text |
|---|
Tenor |
O Lord, how many are my foes, |
How many that in arms against me rise! |
O Lord, how many |
That of my life distrustfully thus say: |
“No Help for him in God there lies.” |
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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