Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1:"Go on, illustrious pair!...While yet thy tide of blood runs high" (Live) - Neil Mackie/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner

Lyrics by：Charles Jennens

Composed by：George Frideric Händel

Go on illustrious pair your great example

Shall teach your youth to scorn the sordid world

And set their hearts on things of real worth

While yet thy tide of blood runs high

To God thy future life devote

Thy early vigour all apply

His glorious service to promote

So shall thy great creator bless

And bid thy days serenely flow

So shall thy youthful happiness

In age no diminution know

With sweet reflections thou shalt taste

Declining gently to thy tomb

The pleasure of good actions past

And hope with rapture joys to come