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The Dance of Dinwiddie
There the dancers had come on the evening before.
The Dance of Dinwiddie
BY
MARSHALL MORETON
STEWART & KIDD COMPANY
PUBLISHERS CINCINNATI
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
MARSHALL MORETON
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The Dance of Dinwiddie
A HOUSE and a barn on an acre of ground—
And there wasn’t another of either around
Save the houses afloat that went flying apast,
For the waters had closed all around them at last.
There the dancers had come on the ev’ning before
In their high-seated wagon—a full score or more,
With fiddlers and one they called “Oracle,” who
Was a modern Sebastian Cerezo, and knew
(About dancing and things) more than any one ’round
In the house or the barn on the acre of ground.
’Twas at the great bend near the town of Dinwiddie
On the banks of the river Ohio, and giddy,
The gay, dizzy dance, like a far-away echo,
Seems laughing to me of a time long ago,
In the merry round waltz and the songs for the reels,
In the “Oracle’s” rhymes that were slicker than eels,
[6]And the snug little town whence the dancers h
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