Dancing wasn’t just for fun, as Phyllis always knew. She’d work at dancing day and night, and with hard work she grew.

Always smiling, always trying, through good times and through tough, Phyllis always did her best. She couldn’t get enough.

Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Giselle. Phyllis danced these for the people: graceful, tireless, well.

With partners Gary Burne and Eduard Greyling too, her magnificence inspired the audience. To her, flowers they threw.

Reward comes easily, when you put yourself to the test. Phyllis came to realise this, once she was called ‘The Best.’

She was awarded ‘Prima Ballerina Assoluta.’ The greatest dancer of them all! Phyllis would be forever known. She wanted nothing more.