Excerpt from Our Dancing Days

The Mocking-Bird

I

These are the favors of our dancing days,
I cannot keep them separate, and these
The tragic figures stealing back to take
Their places in the pretty twelve that made
Our last cotillion famous: here they are.
The Figure of the Tally-Ho was first.

For that began it: Georgia perched with me
High on the last seat of the crowded deck
And highest, over a ship of children, yes,
The crew from the old towns and all the years
The last time gathered for a perfect play,
Bound for the Country Club to dance night out.
We made it brave adventure, worth the while,
A galleon cruise, a caravel crowding back
Into the purple, while our storied huge
Journeying chariot rumbled under us
To trotting castanets, the sixteen hooves,
Out to the country and the stars, till now
The city made a moonset in the west
Like what the true moon yet unrisen made

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