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TO A DANCING PARTNER by MAX EASTMAN

First Line: SUPPOSE THAT IN MY POEM YOU SHALL FIND
Last Line: WILL YOU BE DREAMING OR REMEMBERING?
Subject(s): DANCING & DANCERS;
Suppose that in my poem you shall find
A wave so thrilled and lifted by the wind,
By him to her own sweeter motion moved,
And in that motion so with rapture loved,
That all the sounding round them of the sea
Became the music of their unity,
And warm light fell across them from the west,
And warm love from the beating in her breast
Touched him, but clasped him not, nor gave him rest . . .
When in your slender veins its verses sing,
Will you be dreaming or remembering?



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