by Keats · Cluster: Joy · Animals · Comic Verse Song
Abstract
A short song set to a Mozart air in which Apollo invites the three Graces to ride with him across autumn’s golden fields; a light mythological lyric of music, sun and joy.
Connections
Motifs: Music and Song, Sun, Autumn Themes & Concepts: Joy Forms & Genres: Comic Verse Song Historical References: Greek Mythology
Testo integrale / Full text
Written to the Tune of the Air in ‘Don Giovanni’
APOLLO Which of the fairest three
Today will ride with me?
My steeds are all pawing at the threshold of the morn:
Which of the fairest three
Today will ride with me
Across the gold Autumn’s whole Kingdom of corn?
THE GRACES all answer I will, I - I - I -
O O young Apollo let me fly
Along with thee,
I I will - I, I, I,
The many wonders see
I — I — I — I — 10
And thy lyre shall never have a slackened string
I, I, I, I,
Thro the golden day will sing.