And yet I don't know; for the incantation
goes on to redress the balance in a way that looks scientific:
Ten years after, son and daughter,
And now--
[Practically!]
And now, Miss Sally, come out of the water.
The players end by supplying the applause which, in these days of
division of labour, is commonly left to the audience.
III
Well, there you have it all: acting, singing, dancing, choral
movement--enlisted ancillary to the domestic drama: and, when you
start collecting evidence of these imitative instincts blent in
childhood the mass will soon amaze you and leave you no room to
be surprised that many learned scholars, on the supposition that
uncivilised man is a child more or less--and at least so much of
child that one can argue through children's practice to his--have
found the historical origin of Poetry itself in these primitive
performances: 'communal poetry' as they call it. I propose to
discuss with you (may be neat term) in a lecture not belonging to
this 'course' the likelihood that what we call specifically 'the
Ballad,' or 'Ballad Poetry,' originated thus.
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