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Zimri

An Oratorio
Hawkesworth, John (1715?-1773)
  
ZIMRI.
  
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PART I.
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PART II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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PART III.

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SCENE I.

Zimri
alone.
Recitative accompanied.
Again seduc'd to guilty joys, again
I break away to muse and to be wretched.
Farewel the peaceful hour of meditation,
When conscious virtue wafts the soul to heaven!
If I look inward now, I start with horror;
And life becomes a burden and a curse.

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