“Taking everything together,
The molasses and the weather,
And the fact that we can’t any of us sing,
There is quite sufficient reason
That we wait another season
And postpone our little concert till the spring!”
Rock of Ages.
[The quoted words can be either sung or recited. The melody should be played through once before the beginning of the recitation. The accompaniment, pianissimo, should run through the entire poem, being definite, and piano only on the quoted lines.]