From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part III
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
D major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Allegro ma non troppo |
Length |
68 measures |
English text |
|---|
Bass |
The sword that’s drawn in virtue’s cause |
To guard our country and its laws; |
Friend, parent, children dear, |
To guide its edge we Heav’n invoke; |
Rebellion falls beneath the stroke, |
And joy succeeds the fear. |
Millions unborn shall bless the hand |
That gave deliv’rance to the land. |
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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