L'Allegro
Melancholy is banished in the opening lines and Mirth invoked in her place, and the day that follows runs from the lark at dawn through ploughmen, country fairs and a wedding masque to comedy and music at night. The cheerful half of a matched pair, in octosyllabics that its opposite answers line for line.
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