Caroling Dusk/A Triviality
A TRIVIALITY
Not to dance with her
Was such a trivial thing
Was such a trivial thing
There were girls more fair than she,—
To-day
Ten girls dressed in white.
Each had a white rose wreath.
Ten girls dressed in white.
Each had a white rose wreath.
They made a dead man’s arch
And ten strong men
Carried a body through.
And ten strong men
Carried a body through.
Not to dance with her
Was a trivial thing.
Was a trivial thing.