From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
c sharp minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
15 measures |
English text |
|---|
Bass |
Humbl’d with fear, and awful reverence, |
Before the footstool of his Majesty, |
Throw thyself down with trembling innocence, |
Nor dare to cast thy weak, thy dazzled eye |
On the dread face of that great Deity, |
For fear, lest if he chance to look at thee, |
Thou turn to nought, and quite confounded be. |
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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