THE ELEPHANT DANCE

While reaching for sixty I played a child’s game, But I leaped to the front in the elephant dance. From earliest years overlooked by Fame, While reaching for sixty I played a child’s game. Old dignified friends, who are more or less lame, Think me monstrous and strange, in search of mischance— While reaching for sixty I played a child’s game, But I leaped to the front in the elephant dance.