Living
Song for a Dance
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Living
Shake off your heavy trance!
And leap into a dance
Such as no mortals use to tread:
Fit only for Apollo
To play to, for the moon to lead,
And all the stars to follow!
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MLA
Beaumont, Francis. “Song for a Dance.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/beaumont/2/.
Chicago
Beaumont, Francis. “Song for a Dance.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/beaumont/2/.
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