ENSEMBLE GALILEI

  

The Celtic Harp and Fiddle seize the day

With Scottish and Uillean Pipes and Flute,

The Viola da Gamba and Oboe,--

All intertwined to fill Saint John’s Great Hall,

Therein to celebrate the thirteenth time

The Winter Solstice with their Christmas cheer.

A seasoned Voice from Public Radio

Is instrumental also, joined with these,

And reads Jack London and Kieran O’Hare.

The Music and the Words together bring

Each other such communion of glad life,

That even the One Hundred Books receive    `

The Spirit, and come tripping off their shelves!

As Kant with Hegel, Twain with Plato dance,

The February Swans and Easter Snow

Loom through the ancient windows. Sunset yields

Its influence while Heaven and Nature sing.