Lyrics: John Keats
Music: Imogen Holst
"Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow,
Lethe’s weed and Hermes’ feather;
Come to-day, and come to-morrow,
I do love you both together!
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."