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Katharine Lee Bates - Apollo Laughs
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"APOLLO laughs," the proverb tells,
Far echo of old oracles,
A Delphic waif, —"Once in the year,
Apollo laughs." O laughter clear
As sunshine, blithe as golden bells!
What mortal folly parallels
Olympian jest and so impels
To mirth till Heaven`s bright charioteer,
Apollo, laughs?
`Tis when the annual critic knells
The death of poetry, while swells
Some faint, fresh wood-note, pioneer
Of music earth shall thrill to hear.
Then at Apollo`s infidels
Apollo laughs.
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