ROUNDELAY
OWN the hall of twilight green Or room of the admiring mirrors, Scornful of the lurking errors, Let your dancing foot be seen. While the light of love is shed And youth is scarfed about your head, For you the dance is softly set, Daphne, Doris, Margaret. Bodies blend in tangled play, You are in your native waters, Taught by blood triumphing daughters Through the tumult tread the way. No event can halt the path, | Not old regret nor instant wrath, For life is true and pretty yet As Daphne, Doris, Margaret. But late begins another ball In which the motion slowly passes With faces in the shameful glasses And shadows clinging to the wall: But you must learn this thing to doTo make a dance of days for you, And hurl your laughters at the threat O Daphne, Doris, Margaret.
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 31
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145ROUNDELAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 31
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