Misty Copland Ballet

Annotation​

Unit 2A: Author's Purpose & Craft: Exploring Purpose and Audience​

your feet are swift as sunlight

stretching across the skyline like the daylong sun over the horizon​

your feet are swift as sunlight

stretching across the skyline like the daylong sun over the horizon​

heavy as naptime, low as a storm pressing on rooftops

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I could never hope to leap the space between​

heavy as naptime, low as a storm pressing on rooftops

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I could never hope to leap the space between​

let the sun shine on your face

your beginning's just begun​

let the sun shine on your face

your beginning's just begun​

before before it all​

before before it all​

a dreaming shooting star of a girl

with work and worlds ahead​

a dreaming shooting star of a girl

with work and worlds ahead​

sweating at the barre

I had a thousand leaps and falls

switching worn-out slippers

swift as applause​

sweating at the barre

I had a thousand leaps and falls

switching worn-out slippers

swift as applause​

like me, you'll grow steady in grace

spread an arabesque of wings

and climb​

like me, you'll grow steady in grace

spread an arabesque of wings

and climb​

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that's right.​

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that's right.​

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become a swan, a beauty, a firebird for sure

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soon with the same practice

you'll join me

in this dancing dream​

become a swan, a beauty, a firebird for sure

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soon with the same practice

you'll join me

in this dancing dream​

a music box for two

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we will wrap our hearts

careful as ribbons on pointe shoes​

a music box for two

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we will wrap our hearts

careful as ribbons on pointe shoes​

the moon our silver spotlight

as we spin across the planets

pirouetting tightly as the curls on our heads​

the moon our silver spotlight

as we spin across the planets

pirouetting tightly as the curls on our heads​

we can't yet imagine

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then they will look to you in wonder

lighter than air and swift as

sunlight turning over the day

and say​

we can't yet imagine

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then they will look to you in wonder

lighter than air and swift as

sunlight turning over the day

and say​

and I will show them that forever is not so far away​

and I will show them that forever is not so far away​