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<p>The Dance</p>
<p>Do you remember that day I danced in the woods,<br/>
Under the dancing leaves?<br/>
Do you remember the delicate blue of the sky<br/>
And the gold-dust in the air?<br/>
And the tawny harvest fields, and the heavy sheaves?<br/>
Summer was surely in one of her bravest moods . . .<br/>
And oh, the rare<br/>
Swift joy that lifted life to an ecstasy,<br/>
That shining day I danced for you, dear, in the woods!</p>
<p>The purple twilight came, and the amber moon . . .<br/>
And the fairies danced with me . . .<br/>
And the shy fauns crept from the tangled thicket near,<br/>
And the startled dryads bent,<br/>
White and starry-eyed, each from her secret tree,<br/>
To watch that mystical dance, to share that heavenly swoon<br/>
That mad, bright banishment. . . .<br/>
For we were free in the perfect country, dear,<br/>
When purple twilight came and the amber moon . . .</p>
<p>Some day I shall dance again that mystical dance . . .<br/>
I know not when or where!<br/>
But the angels shall dance with me, and I shall not be afraid.<br/>
I shall look in their deep eyes . . .<br/>
And feel their arms about me, and their kisses in my hair,<br/>
And know that time is over, and the desperate ways of chance. . . .<br/>
I shall be very wise,<br/>
And glad at last, and the walls of the world shall fade . . .<br/>
The day when I dance again that mystical dance.</p>
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