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A black figure dances in a black field. / It seizes a sheet, from the ground, from a bush, as if spread / there by some wash-woman for the night. / It wraps the sheet around its body, until the black figure / is silver. / It dances down a furrow, in the early light, back of a crazy / plough, the green blades following. / How soon the silver fades in the dust! How soon the black / figure slips from the wrinkled sheet! How softly the / sheet falls to the ground!