Money Mnsk.

Money Mnsk.
BENJAMIN T. TAYLOR
281.2

Ah, the buxom girls that helped the boys
The nobler Helens of humbler Troys
As they stripped the husks with rustling fold
From elght rowed corn as vellow as gold.

By the candle light in pumpkin bowls,
And the gleams that showed fantastic holes
In the quaint old lantern’s tattooed tin.
From the hermit glim set up within;

By the rarer light in girlish eyes.
As dark as wells or as blue as skles,
I hear the laugh when the tar la red.
I see the blush with the furfelt pald.

The cedar cakes with the ancient twist,
The cider cup that the girls have kiszed:
And I see the fiddler through the dusk
As he twangs the ghost of “Money Musk.”

The boys and girls in a double row.
Walt face to face till the wagle how
Shall whip the tune from the violin.
And the merry pulse of the feet begin..

In shirt of check, and tastewed hair.
The fiddler sits in the bulrush chair.
Like Moses’ basket strand there
On the brink rink of Father Nile.
He feels the fiddle’s slender neck.
Picks out the notes with thrum and check.
And times the tune with mod and beck,
And thinks it a weary.while.
All ready! Now he gives the call,
Cries, “Honor to the ladies, all.””
The Jolly tides of laughter fall
And ebb in a happy smile.

D-o-w-n comes the bow on every string.
“First couple join right hands and swing”:
As light as any bluebird’s wing.
“Swing once and a half times round”
Whirla Mary Martin all in blue- Cailco gown and stockings new.
And tinted eyes that tell you true
Dance all to the dancing sound.

She filts about big Moses Brown,
Who holds her hands to keep her down.
And thinks her hair a golden crown.
And his heart turns over once!
His cheek with Mary’s breath is wet.
It gives a second somerset,
He means to win the maiden yet-
Alas, for the awkward dunce!

“Your stoga boot has crushed my toe,
I’d rather dance with one legked Joe
You clumsy fellow!” “Pass below!” first pair dance apart.
And the first pair
Then, “Forward, slx,” advance, retreat.
Like midgets gay gay in sunbeam street.
‘Tis Money Musk by merry feet,
And Money Mosk by heart!