158 DANCING DANGER He, perfect dancer, climbs the rope, And balances your fear and hope. Prior—Alma. Canto II. L. 9. </poem>
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Once on a time, the wight Stupidity
For his throne trembled,
When he discovered in the brains of men
Something like thoughts assembled,
And so he searched for a plausible plan
One of validity,—
And racked his brains, if rack his brains he can
None having, or a very few!
At last he hit upon a way
For putting to rout,
And driving out
From our dull clay
These same intruders new—
This Sense, these Thoughts, these Speculative
ills—
What could he do? He introduced quadrilles.
Ruskin—The Invention of Quadrilles.
We are dancing on a volcano.
Comte db Salvandy. At a fete given to the
King of Naples. (1830)
They have measured many a mile,
To tread a measure with you on this grass.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 186.
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 12.
For you and I are past our dancing days.
When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' th' sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that.
Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 140.
Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne!
Sheridan—The Critic. Act II. Sc. 2.
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While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
Sheridan—Pizarro. The Prologue.
But O, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day,
Is half so fine a sight.
Suckling—A Ballad Upon a Wedding. St. 8.
Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet,
love.
John Francis Waller—Kitty Neil. Dance
Light.
And beautiful maidens moved down in the dance,
With the magic of motion and sunshine of glance ;
And white arms wreathed lightly, and tresses
fell free
As the plumage of birds in some tropical tree.
Whither—Cities of the Plain. St. 4.
Jack shall pipe, and Jill shall dance.
George Wither—Poem on Christmas.
DANDELION
Taraxacum Dens-leonis
You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions.
Henry Ward Beecher—Star Papers. A Discourse of Flowers.
Upon a showery night and still,
Without a sound of warning
A trooper band surprised the hill,
And held it in the morning.
We were not waked by bugle notes,
No cheer our dreams invaded,
And yet at dawn, their yellow coats
On the green slopes paraded.
Helen Gray Cone—The Dandelions.
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May,
Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold,
High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they
An Eldorado in the grass have found,
Which not the rich earth's ample round
May match in wealth, thou art more dear to me
Than all the prouder summer-blooms may be.
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Young Dandelion
On a hedge-side,
Said young Dandelion,
Who'll be my bride?
Said young Dandelion
With a sweet air,
I have my eye on
Miss Daisy fair.
D. M. Mulock—Young Dandelion.
DANGER
Anguis sub viridi herba.
There's a snake in the grass.
Bacon. Quoted in Essays. Of a King.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be;
But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.
In Walter Bower's Scotichronicon. (15th
cent.). Found in MS. Black Book of Paisley
in British Museum. End.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>I have not quailed to danger's brow
When high and happy—need I now?
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| work = Giaour. L. 1,035.
In summo periculo timer misericordiam non
recipit.
In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to
every feeling of pity.
Cesar—Bellum Gallicum. VII. 26.
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall.
/ Corinthians. X. 12.
