From Solomon, HWV 67, Act II, Scene I
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
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Length |
20 measures |
English text |
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Solomon |
Prais’d be the Lord, from Him my wisdom springs; |
I bow in-raptur’d to the King of kings. |
He led me, abject, to th’imperial state, |
When weak, and trembling for my future fate; |
Strengthen’d by Him, each foe with horror fled, |
Then impious Joab at the altar bled; |
The death he oft deserv’d stern Schimei found, |
And Adonijah sunk beneath the wound; |
Forc’d by his crimes, I spoke a brother’s doom. |
Ah, may his vices perish in his tomb! |
Opera Stanford |
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