Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow - Ensemble Altera

Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow, movement 1
music by Imogen Holst
text by John Keats
Ensemble Altera
directed by Christopher Lowrey
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.
With permission from Oxford University Press. 'Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow' (mvts 1 & 6) music by Imogen Holst, words by John Keats © Oxford University Press 1951. All rights reserved.