like the moon around the sun

New NASA video shows the

"cosmic pirouette of Earth and our moon"

which naturally reminds me of
the unforgettable cosmic fairy dance in May 1853 installment of Scenes Beyond the Western Border:

Methinks I see a "high hall," whose lights might shame the day; the many white-robed fair,—the far-reaching couples, floating in that fairy dance,—revolving, like the moon around the sun, in circling circles.

But that dance of moon earth and sun has to be animated, maybe not so satisfyingly as in the prose-poetry of our wandering dragoon, on the prairie.