Krishna the Divine Dancer

                                    That Krishna had all the luck.  Was it his blue throat
                                    That made the milkmaids swoon to give themselves to him?
                                    His prowess in subduing demons?  The high note
                                    Only he could reach on his silver flute?  His slim
                                    Build?  Krishna liked best to dance in the rassalia
                                    With the gopis (‘rassalia’ means ‘many dances’) –
                                    Cavalier, peacock-like a passacaglia
                                    Captures Radha while a minuet entrances
                                    Rukmini and Kubja... (Sixteen thousand five score
                                    Wives and eight constitute the contents of the god’s
                                    Harem.)... Well, really!  Shouldn’t there have been a law
                                    Against that kind of thing in ancient Hindu times?
                                    (Krishna being superhuman, it makes no odds,
                                    Does it?  And he did cure a hunchback and stop crimes.)