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CG-NL.771.074
6 Dec 1771:41 (9/421)
VERSES ON DANCING.
Addressed to a Young Lady.
May I presume, in humble lays,
My dancing fair! thy steps to praise?
While this grand maxim I advance,
That all the world is but a dance.
That human kind, both man and woman,
Do dance, is evident and common:
David himself, that Godlike King,
We know, could dance as well as sing:
Folks who at court would keep their ground,
Must dance attendance the year round;
Whole nations dance: gay striking France
Has led Great Britain many a dance;
And some still think that France and Spain
Intend to make us dance again.
A! nature is one ball we find:
The water dances to the wind;
The sea itself, at night and noon,
Rises and dances to the moon.
The moon around the earth does tread,
A Cheshire round, yet ne'er looks red;
The earth and planets round the sun
Still dance, nor will their dance be done,
Till nature in one blast be blended,
Then may we say the ball is ended.
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