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 pantomime; + 

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. + 