Shake off your heavy trance, <br />And leap into a dance, <br />Such as no mortals use to tread, <br />Fit only for Apollo - <br />To play to, for the moon to lead, <br />And all the stars to follow! <br />O blessed youth! for Jove doth pause, <br />Laying aside his graver laws <br />For this device: <br />And at the wedding such a pair <br />Each dance is taken for a prayer, <br />Each song a sacrifice. <br />You should stay longer if we durst; <br />Away! Alas! that he that first <br />Gave Time wild wings to fly away, <br />Has now no power to make him stay.<br /><br />Beaumont and Fletcher<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-shake-off-your-heavy-trance/
