We like a Hairbreadth 'scape 1
It tingles in the Mind
Far after Act or Accident
Like paragraphs of Wind
If we had ventured less 5
The Breeze were not so fine
That reaches to our utmost Hair
Its Tentacles divine.
It tingles in the Mind
Far after Act or Accident
Like paragraphs of Wind
If we had ventured less 5
The Breeze were not so fine
That reaches to our utmost Hair
Its Tentacles divine.
(F.1247/J.1175)
[1] We:: performers of the flying trapeze. Hairbreadth:: the amazing timing of the show.
[3] Act or Accident:: between success or failure.
[4] paragraphs of Wind:: wind instrument's paragraphs, smooth and beautiful.
[6] Breeze:: whisper, rumor among the audience.
[7] Hair:: nature, character.
[8] Tentacles divine:: the performer's hands with the nature of tentacles.
This last entertainment of the evening was the flying Trapeze. Not everybody knows what a trapeze is; a series of handles, made of short poles suspended at either end by elastic ropes, and fastened to the roof, at regular intervals, all across the stage. ─ Littell's Living Age (1865)
Or all performances on gymnastic apparatus, the most fascinating is, perhaps, that elaborate form of swinging called the "flying trapeze" which has lately been brought so prominently forward, and in which we may recognise the old "swinging bar" of our youthful days under a more ambitious designation. ─ The Modern Gymnast (1866)
