I lounge in the doorway and languish in vain While Tom, Dick and Harry are dancing with Jane
My spirit rises to the music’s beat;
There is a leaden fiend lurks in my feet!
To move unto your motion,
Love, were sweet.
Somewhere, I think, some other where, not here,
In other ages, on another sphere,
I danced with you, and you with me, my dear.
In perfect motion did our bodies sway,
To perfect music that was heard alway;
Woe’s me, that am so dull of foot to-day!
To move unto your motion, Love, were sweet; My spirit rises to the music’s beat
But, ah, the leaden demon in my feet! ~ A Wall Flower – Amy Levy
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