Delightful Waltz, on tiptoe for a mate,

The welcome vessel reach'd the genial strand,

And round her flock'd the daughters of the land.

Not decent David, when, before the ark,

His grand pas-seul excited some remark,

Not love-lorn Quixote, when his Sancho thought

The knight's fandango friskier than it ought;

Not soft Herodias, when, with winning tread,

Her nimble feet danced off another's head;

Not Cleopatra on her galley's deck,