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welcome joy and welcome sorrow - imogen holst lyrics

welcome joy, and welcome sorrow
lethe’s weed and hermes’ feather;
come to*day, and come to*morrow
i do love you both together!
i love to mark sad faces in fair weather;
and hear a merry laugh amid the thunder;
fair and foul i love together
meadows sweet where flames are under
and a giggle at a wonder;
visage sage at pantomine;
funeral, and steeple*chime;
infant playing with a skull;
morning fair, and shipwreck’d hull;
nightshade with the woodbine kissing;
serpents in red roses hissing;
cleopatra regal*dress’d
with the aspic at her breast;
dancing music, music sad
both together, sane and mad;
muses bright and muses pale;
sombre saturn, momus hale;**
laugh and sigh, and laugh again;
oh the sweetness of the pain!
muses bright, and muses pale
bare your faces of the veil;
let me see; and let me write
of the day, and of the night *
both together: * let me slake
all my thirst for sweet heart*ache!
let my bower be of yew
interwreath’d with myrtles new;
pines and lime*trees full in bloom
and my couch a low grass*tomb

- imogen holst lyrics

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