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The mazy dance, an emblem meet,
Shall changeful life pourtray,
Whose changes all love's music sweet
Expressively obey.
Then shall to waltz, though unexiled,
And polka sometimes heard,
To songs capricious, wayward, wild,
Be other strains preferred.
The heart that 'midst the petty strife,
Whose ferment, day by day,
To strange realities of life
Converts its trifling play,—
The heart, that here pursued the right,
Shall then, in freer air,
Expand its wings, and drink the light
Of life and reason there:
And quickening truth and living law,
And large affections clear
Shall it to heights on heights updraw,
To holiest hope and fear.
