From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
E major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Tempo |
Largo |
Length |
27 measures |
English text |
|---|
Soprano |
Oh, who shall pour into my swollen eyes |
A sea of tears, that never may be dry’d; |
A brazen voice, that may with shrilling cries |
Pierce the dull Heav’ns, and fill the air so wide; |
An iron frame, that sighing may endure, |
To wail the misery of the world impure? |
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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