Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	Commem. Ball
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet." On with the dance and amplify the band! Invite the neighbours with insistent beat To share for nothing our four-guinea treat, Shaking and twisting on the rumpled sheet. cf Byron, The Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III, XXII Oxford Times, 21 June 1968