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1.  Overture 
2.  !4Chorus!2: How long, oh Lord, shall Israel groan?   
3.  !4Recitative--Joacim!2: Our crime repeated 
4.  !4Air--Joacim!2:  Clouds o'ertake the brightest day  
5.  !4Recitative--Susanna!2: Oh Joacim!  
6.  !4Duet--Susanna, Joacim!2:  When thou art nigh 
7.  !4Recitative--Chelsias!2: Lives there in Babylon 
8.  !4Air--Chelsias!2:  Who fears the Lord may dare all foes 
9.  !4Recitative--Joacim!2: A flame like mine  
10. !4Air--Joacim!2: When first I saw my lovely maid 
11. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: Let me confess  
12. !4Air--Susanna!2: Would custom bid 
13. !4Recitative--Chelsias!2:  Down my old cheeks  
14. !4Air--Chelsias!2:  Peace crowned with roses 
15. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: Oh pious Chelsias 
16. !4Air--Susanna!2: Without the swain's assiduous care 
17. !4Recitative--Joacim, Susanna!2: Source of each joy  
18. !4Air--Joacim!2: The parent bird in search of food 
19. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: On Joacim may ev'ry joy attend  
20. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: What means this weight? 
21. !4Air--Susanna!2: Bending to the throne of glory 
22. !4Recitative--First Elder!2: Tyrannic love! I feel thy cruel dart  
23. !4Air--First Elder!2: Ye verdant hills, ye balmy vales 
24. !4Recitative--First Elder, Second Elder!2: Say is it fit that age? 
25. !4Air--First Elder!2: The oak that for a thousand years  
26. !4Recitative--First Elder, Second Elder!2: Ye winged gales 
27. !4Air--First Elder!2: When the trumpet sounds  
28. !4Chorus!2: Righteous Heav'n beholds their guile   
   
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29. !4Recitative--Joacim!2: Frost nips the flow'rs 
30. !4Air--Joacim!2: On fair Eurphrates' verdant side  
31. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: Lead me, oh lead me to some cool retreat  
32. !4Air--Susanna!2: Crystal streams in murmurs flowing 
33. !4Recitative--Susanna, Attendant!2: Too lovely youth 
34. !4Air--Attendant!2 Ask if yon damask rose  
35. !4Recitative--Susanna, Attendant!2: In vain you try to cure  
36. !4Air--Attendant!2:  Beneath the cypress' gloomy shade 
37. !4Recitative--Susanna, Attendant!2:  Thy plaintive strains 
38. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: But hark! what sudden noise?  
39. !4Air--First Elder!2: Blooming as the face of spring 
40. !4Recitative--Second Elder, Susanna!2: We have long languish'd 
41. !4Air--Second Elder!2: The torrent that sweeps in its course 
42. !4Recitative--Susanna, Second Elder!2:  Deceitful wolves!  
43. !4Trio--Susanna, First and Second Elders!2: Away, away, ye tempt me  
44. !4Recitative--Susanna, Second Elder!2: Alas! I find the fatal toils  
45. !4Recitative--Second, First Elders!2: I caught the fair delinquent 
46. !4Air--Susanna!2: If guiltless blood be your intent  
47. !4Recitative--First Elder!2: Quick to her fate 
48. !4Chorus!2: Let justice reign  
49. !4Recitative--Joacim!2: Is fair Susanna false? 
50. !4Air--Joacim!2: On the rapid whirlwind's wing 
51. !4Chorus!2: Oh Joacim, thy wedded truth  
   
   
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52. !4Chorus!2: The cause is decided 
53. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: I hear my doom  
54. !4Air-Susanna!2: Faith displays her rosy wing  
55. !4Recitative--First Elder!2: Permit me, fair, to mourn thy fate  
56. !4Air--First Elder!2: Round thy urn my tears shall flow  
57. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: 'Tis thus the crocodile 
58. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: But you, who see me on the verge of life  
59. !4Recitative--First, Second Elders; Daniel!2: The sentence now is past 
60. !4Air--Daniel!2: 'Tis not age's sullen face  
61. !4Recitative--Daniel, a Judge!2: Oh wond'rous youth! 
62. !4Chorus!2: Impartial heaven 
63. !4Recitative--Daniel, 1st, 2nd Elders!2: Thou artful wretch  
64. !4Air-Daniel!2: Chastity, thou cherub bright 
65. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: But see, my Lord, my Joachim appears  
66. !4Air--Joacim!2: Gold within the furnace try'd 
67. !4Recitative--Susanna, Chelsias!2: The joyful news   
68. !4Air--Chelsias!2: Raise your voice to sounds of joy 
69. !4Chorus!2: Bless'd be the day that gave Susanna birth 
70. !4Recitative--Susanna!2: Hence ev'ry pang  
71. !4Air--Susanna!2: Guilt trembling spoke my doom  
72. !4Recitative--Susanna, Joacim!2: Sweet are the accents 
73. !4Duet--Joacim, Susanna!2: To my chaste Susanna's praise 
74. !4Chorus!2: A virtuous wife shall soften Fortune's frown 
   
   
   
   
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