waltz-circles

Updated: May 24, 2025

Still she swims along the lazy line with indolent pleasure, still floats in dreamy waltz-circles perchance, still bends to the swaying tune as the hazel-branch bonds to the hidden treasure, but as for me, my dancing days are over. By-and-by it was I with whom she danced, whose hand she touched, on whom she leaned.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863