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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536292" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dancing Seal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we were building Skua Light-- <br>The first men who had lived a night <br>Upon that deep-sea Isle-- <br>As soon as chisel touched the stone, <br>The friendly seals would come ashore; <br>And sit and watch us all the while, <br>As though they'd not seen men before; <br>And so, poor beasts, had never known <br>Men had the heart to do them harm. <br>They'd little cause to feel alarm <br>With us, for we were glad to find <br>Some friendliness in that strange sea; <br>Only too pleaed to let them be <br>And sit as long as they'd a mind <br>To watch us: for their eyes were kind <br>Like women's eyes, it seemed to me. <br>So, hour on hour, they sat: I think <br>They liked to hear the chisels clink: <br>And when the boy sang loud and clear, <br>They scrambled closer in to hear; <br>And if he whistled sweet and shrill, <br>The queer beasts shuffled nearer still: <br>But every sleek and sheeny skin <br>Was mad to hear his violin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When, work all over for the day, <br>He'd take his fiddle down and play <br>His merry tunes beside the sea, <br>Their eyes grew brighter and more bright, <br>And burned and twinkled merrily: <br>And as I watched them one still night, <br>And saw their eager sparkling eyes, <br>I felt those lively seals would rise <br>Some shiny night ere he could know, <br>And dance about him, heel and toe, <br>Unto the fiddle's headdy tune.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And at the rising of the moon, <br>Half-daft, I took my stand before <br>A young seal lying on the shore; <br>And called on her to dance with me. <br>And it seemed hardly strange when she <br>Stood up before me suddenly, <br>And shed her black and sheeny skin; <br>And smiled, all eager to begin . . . <br>And I was dancing, heel and toe, <br>With a young maiden, white as snow, <br>Unto a crazy violin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We danced beneath the dancing moon <br>All night, beside the dancing sea, <br>With tripping toes and skipping heels: <br>And all about us friendly seals <br>Like Christian folk were dancing reels <br>Unto the fiddle's endless tune <br>That kept on spinning merrily <br>As though it never meant to stop. <br>And never once the snow-white maid <br>A moment stayed <br>To take a breath, <br>Though I was fit to drop: <br>And while those wild eyes challenged me, <br>I knew as well as well could be <br>I must keep step with that young girl, <br>Though we should dance to death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then with a skirl <br>The fiddle broke: <br>The moon went out: <br>The sea stopped dead: <br>And, in a twinkling, all the rout <br>Of dancing folk had fled . . . <br>And in the chill bleak dawn I woke <br>Upon the naked rock, alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They've brought me far from Skua Isle . . . <br>I laugh to think they do not know <br>That as, all day I chip the stone, <br>Among my fellows here inland, <br>I smell the sea-wrack on the shore . . . <br>And see her snowy-tossing hand, <br>And meet again her merry smile . . . <br>And dream I'm dancing all the while, <br>I'm dancing ever, heel and toe, <br>With a seal-maiden, white as snow, <br>On that moonshiny Island-strand, <br>For ever and for evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfred+Wilson+Gibson">Wilfred Wilson Gibson</a><div class=q>
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The first men who had lived a night 
Upon that deep-sea Isle-- 
As soon as chisel touched the stone, 
The friendly seals would come ashore; 
And sit and watch us all the while, 
As though they'd not seen men bef..."></div>
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