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<span style="color: rgb(50, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 19px;" class="">Post-May Day reflections on International Worker’s Day</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">> While the leisured classes are frolicking around the Maypole, the lower classes are lustily singing</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Roll Me OV-er in the CLO-ver,</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Roll Me Over, Lay Me Down and Do It Again …</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>[on YouTube with the Three Graces (q.v.)]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">From . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT (1832) </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">[Once an actual settlement, now within Quincy, Mass.]</span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">BRIGHT WERE THE DAYS at Merry Mount, when the Maypole was the banner staff of that gay colony! They who reared it, should their banner be triumphant, were to pour sunshine over New England’s rugged hills, and scatter
flower seeds throughout the soil. Jollity and gloom were contending for an empire. Midsummer eve had come, bringing deep verdure to the forest, and roses in her lap, of a more vivid hue than the tender buds of Spring. But May, or her mirthful spirit, dwelt
all the year round at Merry Mount, sporting with the Summer months, and revelling with Autumn, and basking in the glow of Winter's fireside. Through a world of toil and care she flitted with a dreamlike smile, and came hither to find a home among the lightsome
hearts of Merry Mount. . . . </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">& the opera Merry Mount (1933) by Howard Hanson. </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Extra credit: Look up the festival of Comus. </span></p>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~ Ron</span></p>
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