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,
The first of days appears:

Now chaos ends, and order fair prevails;

Th' infernal host confounded and dismay'd,
Fly to the dark abyss of woe and endless night.

CHORUS.

Despairing, cursing, raging, down they rapid fall-
A new created world springs up at God's command.

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,
Swift fly the clouds on the raging winds:
The lightning gleams in the troubled air,
And awful thunder rolls on high:

Now from Heaven's copious stores descends
The soft reviving rain ;

Now dreary wasteful hail,

Now light and flaky snow.

AIR-Miss TRAVIS, and CHORUS.
The glorious hierarchy of heaven,
Beholds amazed the marv'lous work,
And thro' the ethereal vault resounds,

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,
Mountains and rocks now emerge,
Whose lofty summits pierce the clouds.
Meand'ring thro' the open plain,
With placid stream the river flows;
Gently glides the limpid brook,

In murmurs soft through mossy vales.

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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,
The meadows greet the ravish'd sight,
In rich profusion spread;

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 :
And lofty cedars crown the mountain's brow.

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,
In bright array.

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
His glorious rays; great regent of the day;
Rejoic'd through heav'n's high road to run
His destin'd course.

With softer beams and milder light,

The silver moon steals on through silent night:
Innumerous hosts of radiant orbs,

Glittering adorn the azure vault of heav'n.

RECITATIVE.

And the sons of God announced the fourth day
In songs divine, proclaiming thus His power;

CHORUS.

The heavens are telling the glory of God,
The firmament displays the wonders of his work.

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.]

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