English poem
When We Dance
by Hartley Burr Alexander (1873–1939)
When we dance all together, We men: The drummers beat their drums, The singers sing.... In the midst of the vast prairie We are very small.
Feathers are waving in the bright sunlight: Colors are flashing in the bright sunlight: A thin dust is floating upward where our feet are beating the brown earth.
We are dancing because we do not know what to do about our lives: All together we are dancing because we wish to live.... In the midst of the vast prairie We are a very small nation, We men.