Where bides that noble higher consciousness

That lends such vibrant flavors to the tongue

And crowns the quaint contrivances of verse

To timeless tributes high to heaven flung?

Where is that place of elevated thought

That stimulates and animates the mind,

So mouthed or written phrase by words begot

Can move the soul through harmonies refined?

Where lies the power to lift up common speech

In elegance that dances on the brain,

And in that act, fair images unleashed

Pulse bright in lyric beat to life’s refrain?

Here lift a pen and spellbind words in ink—

That even sages pause, reflect, and think.