I found this treasure today in the Library.
The Perfect Dance
The perfect dance needs music sweet
As dreams; seductive, so the feet
Are led to move as by some spell ;
Or music as of murmuring shell.
True dance shows naught of haste or heat,
Beauty and Joy, twin souls, should meet
To make that lovely miracle -
The perfect dance
A field of wind-kissed waving wheat ;
A swaying sea, scarce waked to greet
The dawn; clouds drifting; these things tell
What dance may be - if it excel.
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Me said they saw in hers complete, -
The perfect dance.
Anonymous [1720 (French)]
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