Samson - Act I Scene 2: O Mirror Of Our Fickle State (参孙 - 第一幕 场景2：我们善变无常的国家的真实写照)-Jochen Kowalski

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:13.48]Micah [00:13.68] [00:16.39]Oh mirror of our fickle state [00:18.14] [00:22.74]In birth in strength in deeds how great [00:25.81] [00:28.33]From highest glory fall'n so low [00:29.36]Sunk in the deep abyss of woe [00:34.63] [00:38.45]11 Recitative [00:38.51] [00:41.39]Samson apart [00:42.20]Whom have I to complain of but myself [00:44.04] [00:44.64]Who Heav'n's great trust could not in silence keep [00:46.85] [00:49.38]But weakly to a woman must reveal it [00:51.72]Oh glorious strength Oh impotence of mind [00:54.07] [01:00.80]But without wisdom what does strength avail [01:03.69]Proudly secure yet liable to fall [01:05.65] [01:14.10]God when he gave it hung it in my hair [01:18.43] [01:21.82]To show how slight the gift But peace my soul [01:24.87] [01:40.89]Strength was my bane the source of all my woes [01:43.47] [02:05.22]Each told apart would ask a life to wail [02:07.43] [02:25.90]Micah to Samson [02:26.56] [02:47.84]Matchless in might once Israel 's glory now her grief [02:52.87]Welcome thy friends well known to visit thee [02:58.55]Samson [02:58.93] [02:59.62]Welcome my friends Experience teaches now [03:03.52]How counterfeit the coin of friendship is [03:05.49] [03:08.34]That's only in the superscription shown [03:11.51]In the warm sunshine of our prosp'rous days [03:13.98] [03:16.25]Friends swarm but in the winter of adversity [03:21.42] [03:29.52]Draw in their heads though sought not to be found [03:34.69]Micah [03:34.96] [03:35.60]Which shall we first bewail [03:39.82]Thy bondage or lost sight [03:44.87]Samson [03:45.46]O loss of sight of thee I most complain [03:47.85]Oh worse than beggary old age or chains [03:48.94] [03:50.57]My very soul in real darkness dwells