John Gay

The B-side of Color Record No. 24:

And here’s today’s poem:

from Acis and Galatea, a Serenata

By John Gay

O the pleasure of the plains!

Happy nymphs and happy swains,

(Harmless, merry, free, and gay)

Dance and sport the hours away.

For us the zephyr blows,

For us distils the dew,

For us unfolds the rose,

And flowers display their hue;

For us the winters rain;

For us the summers shine;

Spring swells for us the grain,

And autumn bleeds the vine.