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I saw a room where many feet were dancing	A
The ceiling and the wall were mirrors glancing	A
Both flames of candles and the heaven's light	B
Though windows there were none for air or flight	B
The room was in a form polygonal	C
Reached by a little door and narrow hall	D
One could behold them enter for the dance	E
And waken as it were out of a trance	E
And either singly or with some one whirl	F
The old the young full livers boy and girl	F
And every panel of the room was just	G
A mirrored door through which a hand was thrust	G
Here there around the room a soul to seize	H
Whereat a scream would rise but no surcease	H
Of music or of dancing save by him	I
Drawn through the mirrored panel to the dim	I
And unknown space behind the flashing mirrors	H
And by his partner struck through by the terrors	H
Of sudden loss	H
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And looking I could see	H
That scarcely any dancer here could free	H
His eyes from off the mirrors but would gaze	H
Upon himself or others till a craze	H
Shone in his eyes thus to anticipate	J
The hand that took each dancer soon or late	J
Some analyzed themselves some only glanced	K
Some stared and paled and then more madly danced	K
One dancer only never looked at all	D
He seemed soul captured by the carnival	C
There were so many dancers there he loved	L
He was so greatly by the music moved	M
He had no time to study his own face	H
There in the mirrors as from place to place	H
He quickly danced	K
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Until I saw at last	N
This dancer by the whirling dancers cast	N
Face full against a mirrored panel where	O
Before he could look at himself or stare	O
He plunged through to the other side and quick	P
As water closes when you lift the stick	P
The mirrored panel swung in place and left	Q
No trace of him as 'twere a magic trick	P
But all his partners thus so soon bereft	Q
Went dancing to the music as before	R
But I saw faces in that mirrored door	R
Anatomizing their forced smiles and watching	A
Their faces over shoulders even matching	A
Their terror with each other's to repress	H
A growing fear in seeing it was less	H
Than some one else's or to ease despair	O
By looking in a face who did not care	O
While watching for the hand that through some door	R
Caught a poor dancer from the dancing floor	R
With every time beat of the orchestra	S
What is this room of mirrors Who can say	H

Edgar Lee Masters

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