Your waist is light and slender,
your fingers neat and small Your cheeks too red and rosy to face the cannonball. Although my waist is light and slender, my fingers are neat and small It would not make me tremble to see ten thousand fall.
- “Jack-A-Roe” (Trad.)
Came across this in Jean Thompson’s wonderful “It Would Not Make Me Tremble” and my heart beat a little harder.
