THE SQUAW-DANCE
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Sleek limbs, lithe limbs, strong and clean limbs,Withered limbs, bowed limbs, long and lean limbs;Flat feet, bare feet, dancing feet,Buckskin-moccasined prancing feet;Shuffle to the left, shuffle to the left,Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle to the left, to the left;With a crouch and a spring and a grunt and a wheeze,And a clanging of bells at the wrists and the knees,—Shining new and olden bells,Silver, copper, golden bells—Feet, feet, feet, feet, scuffling feet!To the drumbeat, drumbeat, beat, beat, beat—Hí! Hi! Hí! Hi!Hóy-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-yáh!
