From Solomon, HWV 67, Act II, Scene III
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
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Length |
26 measures |
English text |
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Solomon |
Israel, attend to what your king shall say: |
Think not I meant the innocent to slay. |
The stern decision was to trace with art, |
The secret dictates of the human heart. |
She who could bear the fierce decree to hear, |
Nor send one sigh, nor shed one pious tear, |
Must be a stranger to a mother’s name — |
Hence from my sight, nor urge a further claim! |
But you, whose fears a parent’s love attest, |
Receive, and bind him to your beating breast: |
To you, in justice, I the babe restore, |
And may you lose him from your arms no more. |
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