Poem by John Keats

Folly's Song

Extracts from an Opera. III.

When wedding fiddles are a-playing,
		Huzza for folly O!
And when maidens go a-Maying,
		Huzza, etc.
When a milk-pail is upset,
		Huzza, etc.
And the clothes left in the wet,
		Huzza, etc.
When the barrel 's set abroach,
		Huzza, etc.
When Kate Eyebrow keeps a coach,
		Huzza, etc.
When the pig is over-roasted,
		Huzza, etc.
And the cheese is over-toasted.
		Huzza, etc.
When Sir Snap is with his lawyer,
		Huzza, etc.
And Miss Chip has kiss'd the sawyer;
		Huzza, etc. 

1. Oh, I Am Frighten'd with Most Hateful Thoughts!
2. Acrostic: Georgiana Augusta Keats
3. Daisy's Song
4. O! Were I One of the Olympian Twelve
5. Song Written on a Blank Page in Beaumont and Fletcher's Works between 'Cupid's Revenge' and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'

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