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NYJ-N.771.168
21 Nov 1771:41 (1507)
THE UNIVERSAL DANCE. 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 God-like 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 frisking France,
Has led Great-Britain many a dance;
And some still think that France and Spain,
Intend to make us dance again.
All 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 doth 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 we may say the ball is ended.
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