From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part III
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
A major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Pomposo → adagio → a tempo |
Length |
110 measures |
English text |
|---|
Tenor |
Tyrants, whom no cov’nants bind, |
Nor solemn oaths can awe, |
Strove to enslave the freeborn mind, |
Religion, libberty, and law. |
Its own viceregent Heaven ordains |
To free the world, and break the oppressor’s chains. |
Tyrants… |
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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