...sorry to begin it, For what we ask is life Not altogether void of feeling. Although we live by strife, Without a touch of poetry in it. ALL. (Kneeling?)...flowing fount of sentiment ! All hail, divine emollient ! KING. You may go, for you're at liberty; our pirate rules protect you, And honorary members of our...

...we're Not altogether void of feeling. Although we live by strife, We're always sorry to begin it, For what, we ask, is life Without a touch of Poetry in...band we do elect you ! SAM. For he is an orphan boy. CHORUS. He is ! Hurrah for the orphan boy. GEN. And it sometimes is a useful thing To be an orphan...

...other day by Mr. Stephen Barrett. The original quatrain is in The Pirates of Penzance, and reads : — Hail, Poetry ! Thou heaven-born Maid ! Thou gildest...trade. Hail ! flowing fount of sentiment ! All hail ! All hail ! Divine emollient ! This is an apostrophe that, considering the demands of the comic opera,...

...shadowed with acute pessimism. Gilbert delightfully mocks the sentimentality so typical of English art. Hail, Poetry, thou heaven-born maid! Thou gildest...flowing fount of sentiment; All hail, divine emollient! On the other hand, if by a similar ironist the Russian rather than the English Muse were invoked, we...

...shadowed with acute pessimism. Gilbert delightfully mocks the sentimentality so typical of English art. Hail, Poetry, thou heaven-born maid! Thou gildest...flowing fount of sentiment; All hail, divine emollient! On the other hand, if by a similar ironist the Russian rather than the English Muse were invoked, we...

...Not altogether void of feeling. Although we live by strife, We're always sorry to begin it, 585 For what, we ask, is life Without a touch of Poetry in it? ALL Hail, Poetry, thou heaven-born maid! (kneeling). Thou gildest e'en the pirate's trade: Hail, flowing...

...Both Gilbert and Sullivan fully subscribed to the philosophical statement which precedes this song: 'What, we ask, is life without a touch of poetry in it?' For them, a touch of poetry was what made life more explicable, more ordered and perhaps above all...

...fellow! GENERAL. PIRATES (singing). Poor fellow! KING. We will not take your daughters. You may go, our pirate rules protect you, and honorary members of our band we do elect you! SAMUEL. (SONG #12: "ORPHAN BOY") For he is an orphan boy! CHORUS. He is! Hurrah for the orphan boy!...