The Second Minuet
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- Title
- The Second Minuet
- Publication year listed
- 1924
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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The Second Minuet
Author: Besly, Maurice
Year: 1924
[i] My Grannie used to say to me / When I was very small, / That she remembered well the day / She went to her first ball, / How in her dress of crinoline she sat from two till eight, / And how through all those hours she wept / For fear she might be late; / But Grandpapa and Grandmama had never even met / When Grandpapa asked Grandmama for the second Minuet. [ii] The hall, she said, was like a dream of blue and gold and red, / And Grandmama was quite the belle / (At least so Grandma said), / And all the men were very smart in coats of ev’ry [every] hue, / But one, the fairest of them all, was dressed in palest blue, / And Grandpapa and Grandmama had never even met / When Grandpapa asked Grandmama for the second Minuet. [iii] The man in blue came passing by, / And chanc’d [chanced] to turn his head, / He fell at once in love with her / (At least so Grandma said), / And that is all about the Ball that I to tell you dare, / ‘Cos Grandpapa and Grandmama are sleeping over there; / But Grandpapa and Grandmama had never really met / When Grandpapa kissed Grandmama in the second Minuet.