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  • I love to go and mingle with the young
    In the gay festal room--when every heart
    Is beating faster than the merry tune,
    And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
    Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
    Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

    Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238