| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Dancers | | By Richard Aldington |
| | PALACE MUSIC HALL—(Les Sylphides)
To Nijinsky
THE LITTLE white lambs frisk | |
| And flirt their woolen panties; | |
| In meek and sleek sweet patterns | |
| They group about their shepherd. | |
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| Hola! | 5 |
| An elegant shepherd! | |
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| He trips like a young princess; | |
| He has curls like a real Madonna. | |
| And there he goes prancing | |
| And dancing, and entrancing | 10 |
| A little pastoral lady. | |
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| But perhaps he is really a Panisk, | |
| Running through tall white flowers | |
| After a white mademoiselle butterfly. | |
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| He does not do it for money | 15 |
| As they other here have done; | |
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| He likes to jump and feel his legs. | |
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| And after all I think he is a fairy prince, | |
| And the dance means that he has lost his kingdom | |
| But that he will marry a king’s daughter. | 20 | | | |
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