From Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Part I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
d minor → a minor |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
8 measures |
English text |
|---|
Bass |
Fools or madmen stand not within thy sight, |
All workers of iniquity thou hat’st, |
And them, unblest, thou wilt destroy; |
The bloody and guileful man thou dost detest. |
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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