From Solomon, HWV 67, Act I, Scene II
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
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Length |
12 measures |
English text |
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Zadok |
Vain are the transient beauties of the face, |
Where virtue fails to animate each grace; |
Bright and more bright her radiant face appears, |
Nor dreads the canker’d tooth of rolling years: |
O’er such a partner comfort spreads her wing, |
And all our life is one perpetual spring. |
Opera Stanford |