The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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RECORDING ANGEL (from a book, in recitative)
Now mellow-eyed Peace is made captive, And Vengeance is chartered To deal forth its dooms on the Peoples With sword and with spear. Men's musings are busy with forecasts Of muster and battle, And visions of shock and disaster Rise red on the year. The easternmost ruler sits wistful, And tense he to midward; The King to the west mans his borders In front and in rear. While one they eye, flushed from his crowning, Ranks legions around him To shake the enisled neighbour nation And close her career! SEMICHORUS I OF RUMOURS (aerial music) O woven-winged squadrons of Toulon And fellows of Rochefort, Wait, wait for a wind, and draw westward Ere Nelson be near! |
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