To enter with dignity

I begin an adagio

Played in a dark minor key,

Serious and sombre,

A step to the side of my natural presence.

It attracts your straying attention.

Then a plaintive air played without pity

Lures you to sleep

with lavender scent on your pillow.

Mellow with sadness you dream of the hills

And wish you were free to wander.

Swiftly switching we play an expanded cantata

In brisk and rippling allegro

Shifting to pizzicato

Through gladness and frenzy

to uncontrolled magical madness

where, without looking back,

I chain your feet sole and heel to the dance floor

And retreat to the windswept moors.