Tarantella
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding and the spreading of the straw for a bedding,
And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,
And the wine that tasted of tar,
And the cheers and the jeers of the young
Under the vine of the dark veranda?
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the cheers and the jeers of the young
Who hadn't got a penny,
And who weren't paying any,
And the hammer at the doors and the din;
And the Hip!
Hop!
Hap!
Of the
Of the hands to the twirl and the
Of the girl gone chancing,
Glancing,
Dancing,
Backing and advancing,
Snapping of the clapper to the spin,
Out and
And the Ting!
Tong!
Tang! of the guitar?
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn? Never more; Miranda, Never more. Only the high peaks hoar: And Aragon a torrent at the door. No sound In the walls of the Halls where falls The tread Of the feet of the dead to the ground No sound: But the boom Of the far Waterfall like Doom.
Hilaire Belloc
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