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