Come songbirds that sing to the soul;

Where the glint of the gold in fair tresses

Hide a face that we never have seen,

And the infinite hope that caresses

Kisses joys that we never may glean.

For the wealth of the world is ideal;

There is bliss in the beauty of rhyme,

And the thoughts of the soul are the real,

Outlasting the cycles of time.

And the soul is the diamond eternal