Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!orion!houca!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!mj From: mj@pur-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: more Nash - (nf) Message-ID: <948@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 19:26:46 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.948 Posted: Mon Jun 27 19:26:46 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 15:25:35 EDT Lines: 36 #N:ecn-ec:14100010:000:874 ecn-ec!mj Jun 27 09:46:00 1983 Still more from the Nash/Kostelanetz/Ustinov album: Waltz of the Flowers -------------------- Strike up the waltz! The flowers all Assemble for the victory ball! Below the wide triumphal arch, Behold, a garden on the march! The air with iridescence loaded As if a rainbow had exploded. They swing and circle, swoop and dip, But with such delicate mastership That not a gossamer thread is torn By catching on a partner's thorn. A wildflower interrupts the waltz By turning double somersaults, And now all the flowers advance, All swirling in the victory dance Until the blazing ballroom seems A gaudy carnival of dreams. Of dreams designed for child's delight, To dream this night, and every night. [music] ________ Mark A. Johnson Purdue University decvax!pur-ee!mj (317) 743-2548