For midnight was only a part of the night,
While the night was all theirs till the morn’s early light;
All they cared for was there, and so why should they borrow
The shadow of thought for the coming to-morrow?
Thus, thoughtless of danger and heedless of warning
The dancing went on till the dawn of the morning,
When in terror the dancers then found that the flood
Had surrounded the house and the barn, and they stood
On an island alone in the midst of the stream.
’Twas as if they had waked from a long, pleasing dream