Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow
"Under
the
flag
Of
each
his
faction,
they
to
battle
bring
Their
embryo
atoms."
~
Milton.
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.
