“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”

— Joyce Grenfell

Stately as a Galleon (1978), " Stately as a Galleon http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1241.html"

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