CHORUS Hallelujah, Amen. O Judah, rejoice in songs divine, With Cherubim and Seraphim harmonious join. Hallelujah, Amen. END OF THE FIRST PART. [An interval of a quarter of an hour between the First and Second Parts.] THE FIRST PART OF HAYDN's CREATION. OVERTURE CHAOS. RECIT.-RAPHAEL, MR. PHILLIPS. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth; and the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. CHORUS. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters; and God said "let there be light :" and there was light. RECIT.-URIEL, MR. VAUGHAN. And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. SONG. Now vanish before the holy beams, The gloomy shades of ancient night, Now chaos ends, and order fair prevails; Th' infernal host confounded and dismay'd, CHORUS. Despairing, cursing, raging, down they rapid fall- RECITATIVE.-RAPHAEL, MR. PHILLIPS. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. RECITATIVE accompanied, MR. PHILLIPS. The dreadful tempest now is rous'd, Now from Heaven's copious stores descends Now dreary wasteful hail, Now light and flaky snow. AIR-Miss TRAVIS, and CHORUS. The praise of God, and of the second day. RECITATIVE.-RAPHAEL. MR. BELLAMY. And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear :" and it was so. And God called the dry land earth; and the gathering of waters called he sea; and God saw that it was good. AIR. Rolling in foaming billows, Uplifted roars the boist'rous sea, In murmurs soft through mossy vales. B RECITATIVE.-GABRIEL, MADAME CARADORI. And God said "Let the earth bring forth grass; the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so." AIR, With verdure clad in cheerful pride, Gay flowers display their thousand hues. Here fragrant herbs their odours breathe, Here shoots the healing plant; With luscious fruits the bending boughs are deck'd: The shady groves their arched tops entwine : RECITATIVE.-ARIEL, MR. SAPIO. And the heavenly host proclaimed the third day, praising God, and saying. CHORUS. Awake the harp, the lyre awake, In strains of joy your voices raise ; In triumph sing the mighty God He spake the word, and earth was cloth'd, RECITATIVE, - ARIEL, MR. BRAHAM. And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night, and to give light upon the earth, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years." RECITATIVE accompanied, MR. BRAHAM. In splendour bright the sun emerging darts With softer beams and milder light, The silver moon steals on through silent night: Glittering adorn the azure vault of heav'n. RECITATIVE. And the sons of God announced the fourth day CHORUS. The heavens are telling the glory of God, TRIO.-GABRIEL, ARIEL, RAPHAEL, MISS GOODALL, MR. SAPIO, MR. PHILLIPS. Day unto day doth utter speech ; Night unto night doth knowledge shew; The heavens are telling the glory of God, The firmament displays the wonders of his work. END OF THE SECOND PART. [An interval of five minutes between the Second and Third Parts.] B 2 |