As steals the morn
George Frideric Handel * Track #1 On L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
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As steals the morn by George Frideric Handel
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George Frideric HandelAbout
When Handel decided to set Milton’s “L'allegro” and “Il Penseroso” to music, his librettist Charles Jennens convinced him to include a third passage setting out a middle course between the two emotional extremes. He took a passage from Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and updated it to sp...
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As steals the morn Lyrics
As steals the morn upon the night
And melts the shades away:
So Truth does Fancy's charm dissolve
And rising Reason puts to flight
The fumes that did the mind involve
Restoring intellectual day
As steals the morn Q&A
Who wrote As steals the morn's ?
As steals the morn was written by Charles Jennens & George Frideric Handel & William Shakespeare.
who wrote these words. has it been extracted from a bigger work?
It’s partly adapted from Act 5, Scene 1 of The Tempest. See the song bio for more information.