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Re: amazing weather photo - extremely off-topic reply
CTR 2010-Jan-10 00:17:00
--- In #removed#, Don Bain <dbain@...> wrote:
>
> Glad I am in California :-)
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm
>
Today we made it back home from our holiday,
despite the fact that German metereologist were
expecting a complete snow chaos today.
Looking at the picture of Britain I thought of a
scene from the semi-opera "King Arthur" (A.D. 1691)
by Henry Purcell (ACT III, scene 2):
"Cupid
What ho, thou Genius of this Isle, what ho!
Lyst thou asleep beneath those hills of snow?
Stretch out thy lazy limbs: Awake, awake!
And winter from thy furry mantle shake.
Genius
What power art thou, who from below
Hast made me rise unwillingly and slow
From beds of everlasting snow?
See'st thou not how stiff and wondrous old
Far unfit to bear the bitter cold,
I can scarcely move or draw my breath?
Let me, let me freeze again to death.
Cupid
Thou doting fool, forbear, forbear!
What dost thou mean by freezing here?
At Love's appearing, all the sky clearing,
The stormy winds their fury spare.
Winter subduing, and Spring renewing,
My beams create a more glorious year.
Thou doting fool, forbear, forbear!
What dost thou mean by freezing here?
Genius
Great Love, I know thee now:
Eldest of the gods art thou.
Heav'n and earth by thee were made.
Human nature is thy creature.
Ev'rywhere thou art obey'd.
Cupid
No part of my dominion shall be waste:
To spread my sway and sing my praise,
E'en here, e'en here I will a people raise
Of kind embracing lovers and embrac'd."
Well, spring might take some time to come ;-)