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(Village Dances)
But I have seen fairer scenes more fascinating scenes in at Shrewton in the home of the local squire when the days were bright and the evenings long in the home of the local squire On the lawn In front of the Manor hall the village beauties and the gallants of the A.I.F, used to meet & trip it o'er the garden lawn "on the light fantastic toe", the Squire lending his grounds regualry for this little play of gaiety & The band of my own battalion "the famous 20th" played for the music for popular the dancers. To behold thoses bright-faced Wiltshire lasses maidens with joy shining in their eyes & flashing out into smiles as they waltzed across the bright green sward with stalwart Australian khaki-clad youths from far-off Australia was a spectacle that recalled many memories; one, I thought which a poet might be moved to commemorate in im everlasting immortal verse. Passing away on my evenings walks on from away from these Sylva Sylvan surroundings scenes I usually followed the highway into the distant fields & was disturbed often was