In Breughel's great picture,
The Kermess,the dancers go round, they go round andaround, the squeal and the blare and thetweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddlestipping their bellies, (round as the thick-sided glasses whose wash they impound)their hips and their bellies off balanceto turn them.
Kicking and rolling aboutthe Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, thoseshanks must be sound to bear up under suchrollicking measures, prance as they dancein Breughel's great picture,
The
Pieter Brueghel,
Kermesse (1567-8)Oil on canvas, approximately 45 inches x 64.5 inches.
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna.
