From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part III
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
e minor → b minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
8 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
May balmy peace, and wreath’d renown, |
The virtuous hero ever crown; |
May bliss eternal be his share, |
Whose God and peole are his care. |
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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