JUDITH.

Fire, fword and ruin, chains and death

In thund'ring voice his threats bespeak;
And blafted by the cruel breath
Palenefs bespread Bethulia's cheek:
But lo! at once his daring pride

Is crush'd by unexpected fate;

The tempeft roars, the clouds fubfide;
So disappears his baffled hate.

CHORUS, &c.

JUDITH.

Difpers'd, abandon'd, and forlorn,
Their flight the fell Barbarians speed;
On terror's wing Affyria's borne,
And wild difmay appals the Mede.

Nor were they giants, us'd t' affail
The stars, who deal the fatal blow;
A Woman's arm defenceless, frail,
Alone hath laid the tyrant low.

CHORUS, &c.

EFFETTI DELLA PA CE

CANTATA

Del METASTASI O.

IN prato, in forefta,

Sia l' alba, o la fera,

Se dorme talór,

Non turba, non desta

La tromba guerriera

Dal fonno il paftor.

Le madri ficure

D' infidie, e perigli

Se i teneri figli

Si ftringono al petto,

Impulfo è d'affetto,

Non piu' di timor.

O R

THE

EFFECTS OF

PEACE,

A S O N G.

By METASTASIO.

IF in the wood, or on the lawn,

At close of eve, or morning dawn,

The shepherd swain repofe;
He fprings not from his ruftic bed

Rous'd by the trumpet's clangor dread,
And fear of ambush'd foes.

Free from the thought that fancy feeds. Of reckless rage, and murd'rous deeds,

And swift deftroying fires,

If to the mother's melting breast

With tender force her babe be preft,

No fear the clafp infpires.