by Coleridge · Cluster: Joy · Animals · Comic Verse Song
Abstract
A pastoral hunting song from Zapolya summoning shepherds to hunt the wolf and lasses to tend the flocks. Themes: rustic nature, communal labour, the chase.
Connections
Topoi: Pastoral Retreat Motifs: Nature, Animals Themes & Concepts: Common Man Forms & Genres: Comic Verse Song Settings: Pastoral Countryside
Testo integrale / Full text
FROM ZAPOLYA
Up, up! ye dames, and lasses gay!
To the meadows trip away.
‘Tis you must tend the flocks this morn,
And scare the small birds from the corn.
Not a soul at home may stay: 5
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
Leave the hearth and leave the house
To the cricket and the mouse: 10
Find grannam out a sunny seat.
With babe and lambkin at her feet.
Not a soul at home may stay:
For the shepherds must go
With lance and bow 15
To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.
1815.