The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")

part in the singing and dancing. And better a simple rustic bagpipe than

such weird sounds, such toad-croakings, grave-voices and marmot-pipings, with which you have hitherto regaled us in your wilderness, Mr Anchorite and Musician of the Future! No! Not such tones! But let us strike up something more agreeable and more joyful!"—You would like to have it so, my impatient friend...