All caper round the fountain in a horrifying, mocking death dance.

Don Whillans was notorious for mocking death.

His genius felt some appeal in it that let him go on unchecked in the transcript of baby-life mocking death in all innocence and unwitting:-

Then he departed, and as he went he broke into deep-throated, Homeric laughter, and I- Iunderstood :hewas mocking Death.