Händel - Belshazzar; Chorus - See, from his post Euphrates flies & Aria Cyrus
BELSHAZZAR (1745)
An Oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)
Words by Charles Jennens
ACT TWO
Scene 1
Without the city, the river almost empty. Cyrus and Chorus of Persians and Medes.
31. Chorus of Persians and Medes
See, from his post Euphrates flies,
The stream withdraws his guardian wave,
Fenceless the queen of city lies!
Semi-Chorus
Why, faithless river, dost thou leave
Thy charge to hostile arms a prey,
Expose the lives th