Deportmental ditties : and other verses . See, your sisters and your brothers (not to mentionhosts of others),How they leap and caracole and pirouet !While your partner you disgruntle by a style thatscontrapuntal,Till the poor girl feels in evry way George grows apoplectic, Uncle John seemssomewhat hectic,But you gaze at them with envy as you noteWith what ease each stout relation gives his lifelike imitation 41 Of a goat. Deportmental Ditties There are many kinds of dances, from that favourite of Frances Which some people call a valse and others waltz—(Though the French, in doubtf
Deportmental ditties : and other verses . See, your sisters and your brothers (not to mentionhosts of others),How they leap and caracole and pirouet !While your partner you disgruntle by a style thatscontrapuntal,Till the poor girl feels in evry way George grows apoplectic, Uncle John seemssomewhat hectic,But you gaze at them with envy as you noteWith what ease each stout relation gives his lifelike imitation 41 Of a goat. Deportmental Ditties There are many kinds of dances, from that favourite of Frances Which some people call a valse and others waltz—(Though the French, in doubtful taste, dance both the can-can and theloaist-d&nce,These are vulgar, and have many other faults),—To the saraband of Prussia, and the rigadoon of Kussia, Which demand the greatest energy and zeal,—From that not-to-be-ignored dance which the Scottish term a Sword-dance, To a reel. When your grandmamma went dancing, her behaviour was entrancing ; Such decorum, so much grace, were rarely seen !And her too impatient lover was com
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