Description
Based on a Glee by Samuel Webbe
The first section is based on a verse from Homer`s Iliad, as the Trojans and Greeks resume their conflict.
The second section, set in 3 time and in the major mode, is a song in praise of peace.
Discord, dire sister of the slaught’ring power,
Small at her birth, but rising ev’ry hour,
While scarce the skies her horrid head can bound,
She stalks on earth, and shakes the world around.
But lovely peace, in angel’s form
Descending, quells the rising storm.
Soft ease and sweet content shall reign
And discord never rise again.