Note 2 — Early Poems (continued 4)
Reading edition
Imitated apparently from the dance in Shelley’s Triumph of Life:— The wild dance maddens in the van; and those ... Mix with each other in tempestuous measure To savage music, wilder as it grows. They, tortur’d by their agonising pleasure, Convuls’d, and on the rapid whirlwinds spun ... Maidens and youths fling their wild arms in air. As their feet twinkle, etc.