MUSIC-HALL BALLET

Through the sad billowing base of grey and rose,

Stung with sharp lamps in its most velvet gloom;

Drowsy with smoke, and loud with voice and glass,

Where wine-whipped animations pass and pass—

Beauty breaks sudden blossoms all around

In happy riot of rhythm, colour, and pose.

The radiant hands, the swift, delighted limbs

Move as in pools of dream the dancer swims,