'Under the flag <br />Of each his faction, they to battle bring <br />Their embryo atoms.' ~ Milton. <br /> <br />Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow, <br />Lethe's weed and Hermes' feather; <br />Come to-day, and come to-morrow, <br />I do love you both together! <br />I love to mark sad faces in fair weather; <br />And hear a merry laugh amid the thunder; <br />Fair and foul I love together. <br />Meadows sweet where flames are under, <br />And a giggle at a wonder; <br />Visage sage at pantomine; <br />Funeral, and steeple-chime; <br />Infant playing with a skull; <br />Morning fair, and shipwreck'd hull; <br />Nightshade with the woodbine kissing; <br />Serpents in red roses hissing; <br />Cleopatra regal-dress'd <br />With the aspic at her breast; <br />Dancing music, music sad, <br />Both together, sane and mad; <br />Muses bright and muses pale; <br />Sombre Saturn, Momus hale;-- <br />Laugh and sigh, and laugh again; <br />Oh the sweetness of the pain! <br />Muses bright, and muses pale, <br />Bare your faces of the veil; <br />Let me see; and let me write <br />Of the day, and of the night - <br />Both together: - let me slake <br />All my thirst for sweet heart-ache! <br />Let my bower be of yew, <br />Interwreath'd with myrtles new; <br />Pines and lime-trees full in bloom, <br />And my couch a low grass-tomb.<br /><br />John Keats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-welcome-joy-and-welcome-sorrow/
