That they all clapp’d their wings and declared it divine!

[p14] The Sky-Lark, in ecstasy, sang from a cloud,

And Chanticleer crow’d, and the Yaffil[11] laugh’d loud.

The dancing began when the singing was over:

A Dotterel first open’d the ball with the Plover;

Baron Stork in a waltz was allow’d to excel,

With his beautiful partner, the fair Demoiselle;[12]

[p15] And a newly-fledged Gosling, so fair and genteel,

A minuet swam with the spruce Mr. Teal.