Good rhyme has a resounding impact; pray
Forgive the pun. Something there is that needs
To make words on their haunches stand and stay.
Through fiery hoops spring, and precisely say
Its meaning; tightly rhymed, to do these deeds.
Something would father child, and bring it to
First steps, to journeys of the mind and heart,
In time, to be a teacher of the true,
To form a world, the like we never knew,
To make the difference, and another start.
To build a ship that masters wind and course,
Harnessed to hands who sense that point of lift
The craft will fly with a resounding force -
(Impact should be avoided here, of course.)
Something there is that wants to ride the drift,
To write, to whippersnap wild, wandering words
In tame co-operation, one by one
And side by side, til newmade worlds emerge,
Til many thousand souls have felt the scourge,
Til something fresh is spinning in
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