[Peace-discuss] In a world of toil & care

[Szoke, Ron]

Post-May Day reflections on International Worker’s Day

>  While the leisured classes are frolicking around the Maypole, the lower classes are lustily singing

Roll Me OV-er in the CLO-ver,
Roll Me Over, Lay Me Down and Do It Again …
[on YouTube with the Three Graces (q.v.)]

From . . .

THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT (1832)

[Once an actual settlement, now within Quincy, Mass.]

by Nathaniel Hawthorne  (1804-1864)

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.  . . .

& the opera Merry Mount  (1933) by Howard Hanson.

Extra credit:  Look up the festival of Comus.

~~ Ron

[cid:9163FCAF-2483-4C59-A92A-83B0E301A6EC at hsd1.il.comcast.net]

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