The Dance of Dinwiddie

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It was fine, it was jolly, and no one could tell How it all came about that the chaperon fell; It seemed that her hoops, near the end of the dance, Got caught on the knob of a d...

There breathless they stood in an agonized fear When they saw him ride high to again disappear; But bravely he fought with the oars at his side, Though his efforts were futile t...

Then out from the shore came the same dinky “John” That the trusting old fiddler had rode away on, And strange though it seemed, there was Dan in the boat That had weathered the...