I came into the world sick, in sick surroundings, to whom youth was a sickroom and life a shiny, sunlit window – with glorious colours and glorious joys – and out there I wanted so much to take part in the dance, the Dance of Life".
"When a new god arrives, we surrender without a word," observes spiky-little-miss Zerbinetta at the end of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, as the music explodes and one thwarted love is replaced by the glorious, if tenuous joys of another.
They turned defense into attack, they went for, and scored, one more glorious goal for the joy of it.
But journalists with early-morning shifts Sit waiting in their cubicles, alert Until the press release drops from on high O joy! O glorious day!
Beethoven wrote music for the 1815 Congress of Vienna at which the European powers gathered after Napoleon's defeat; that music included a bombastic ancestor to the "Ode to Joy," the "Glorious Moment" Cantata, which proclaimed, "Europe is risen!
Life, in its very nature, is a glorious mishmash of hope, joy, surprises and disappointment from moment of our birth to the inevitability of our death.
To me it's glorious, a reminder of Thanksgiving joy just past and a celebration of the peace that replaces it, a dish like a memory that is gloriously slow to fade.
As we are glued to our widescreen HDTV's, watching every move by today's "fútbol" stars like Ronaldo and Messi, Pelé reminds us that they each have ten other players on "the pitch" and many more on the bench, sharing with our joy in each glorious goal.
