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What damsel would lavish her breath or her skill
On a dull country dance, or insipid quadrille;
I'm weary of both, and with languor I view
The formal precision of “En avant deux;”
Where they study their lessons with serious looks,
And often peep into their sly little books
Thus searching a volume when rather perplext,
To find illustrations of what should come next,
As if “chassez croisez” no man could succeed in
Without meditation, and very hard reading.
On a dull country dance, or insipid quadrille;
I'm weary of both, and with languor I view
The formal precision of “En avant deux;”
Where they study their lessons with serious looks,
And often peep into their sly little books
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To find illustrations of what should come next,
As if “chassez croisez” no man could succeed in
Without meditation, and very hard reading.
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