He lifted his
toes with such inimitable agility, postured his fingers so daintily,
conducted his melon-belly with so much elegance, and exhaled such a
warm joy in the sport that I could look at nothing else at first for
delight in him.
But there were slim maids too among the plumper and ruddier, like
crocuses, like lilac, like whey, with all their fragrance and
freshness and lightness. Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such
nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay
delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters
ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a
hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
As for the jolly rustics that were jogging their wits away with such
delightful gravity, but little time was given me to admire them ere I
also was snatched into the ring, and found brown eyes dwelling with
mine, and a hand like lettuces in the dog-days. Round and about we
skipped in the golden straw, amidst treasuries of hay, puffing and
spinning. And the quiet lightnings quivered between the beams, and
the monstrous "Ah!" of the thunder submerged the pipe's sweetness.
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