And busy and happy just all of the time.
In days scarcely fifteen he wrote his great Saul,
And in nineteen more he had finished all
Of Israel in Egypt in whose every tone
The work of a master of music is shown.
And in but two weeks 'tis said that he wrote
His wondrous Messiah complete in each note.
But work without rest from morning till night
Deprived him, like Bach, of precious eye-sight.
For seven long years great Handel was blind,