As step with swift step interlaces.

Of Rigaudons I have the knack.

“When in my aerial flight I go,

High leaping, see the people’s faces!

How round their eyes begin to grow,

And what a shout each one upraises!

Perchance some jealous girl grimaces.

But what of that! when, smiling back,

I see the one thing she betrays is—

Of Rigaudons I have the knack!