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Dance Fly not yet 2257

Jig · 48 bars · 2 couples · Longwise - 4   (Progression: 21)

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Unknown
Intensity
80/80/88/88/88/88 = 57% (whole dance)
Formations
Steps
  • Pas-de-Basque, Skip-Change, Slip-Step
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Fly Not Yet

Verses entitled “Fly Not Yet” were written by the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779–1852). The tune to which they were set, however, was an old melody called “Planxty Kelly”.

It is altogether possible that this was the song which inspired the dance for Moore was, next to his close friend, George Gordon, Lord Byron, the most popular poet of his age and a society personality about London. He was a singer and a musician and by fitting words to traditional folk tunes he became something of an Irish minstrel. His best known songs are “The Harp that Once through Tara’s Halls”, “'Tis the Last Rose of Summer” and “Believe me, if all those Endearing Young Charms”.

Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour,
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night,
   And maids who love the moon.
'Twas but to bless these hours of shade
That beauty and the moon were made;
'Tis then their soft attractions glowing
Set the tides and goblets flowing.
   Oh! stay. – Oh! stay, –
Joy so seldom weaves a chain
Like this to-night, that oh! 'tis pain
   To break its links so soon.
Fly not yet, the fount that play’d
In times of old through Ammon’s shade.
Though icy cold by day it ran,
Yet still, like souls of mirth, began
   To burn when night was near.
And thus, should woman’s heart and looks
At noon be cold as winter brooks,
Nor kindle till the night, returning,
Brings their genial hour for burning.
   Oh! stay – Oh! stay, –
When did morning ever break,
And find such beaming eyes awake
   As those that sparkle here?

Fly not yet 2/4L · J48
1-8
1L followed by partner casts below 2s, lead up & cross back to places
9-16
1L followed by partner dances down the middle, about turn & lead back to places
17-24
1s+2s circle 4H round to left, 1s+2s Adv+Ret
25-32
1s+2s dance RH across & LH back to places
33-40
1s+2s circle 4H round to left, 1s+2s Adv+Ret
41-48
1s+2s dance Poussette. 2 1

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Added on: 2017-06-12 (Linda Mae Dennis)
Quality: Animation

NameDateOwnerLast changed
RSCDS Book 13 Ward Fleri Nov. 7, 2021, 2:09 a.m.

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IdSubjectDateSubmitterAssigned toPriorityDisposition
2116 Fly not yet - formations May 25, 2020, 3:48 a.m. Bill Unger Murrough Landon Normal Fixed