Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1:"This but the smallest part of harmony...By thee this universal frame" (Live) - Neil Mackie/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

Lyrics by：Charles Jennens

Composed by：George Frideric Händel

This but the smallest part of harmony

Great attribute of attributes divine

And centre of the rest where all agree

Whose wondrous force what great effects proclaim

By thee this universal frame

From it' almighty maker's hand

In primitive perfection came

By thee produc'd in thee contain'd

No sooner did th'eternal word dispense

Thy vast mysterious influence

Than chaos his old discord ceas'd

Nature began of labour eas'd

Her latent beauties to disclose

A fair harmonious world arose

And though by diabolic guile

Disorder Lord it for a while

The time will come

When nature shall her pristine form regain

And harmony for ever reign