Touch environment with every sense-tip,
Drink the well and pass my wander way,—
says this sane poet who holds his gift as a tribute, whose philosophy is to affirm and not deny:
O hand of mine and brain of mine, be yours,
While time endures,
To acquiesce and learn!
For what we best may dare and drudge and yearn,
Let soul discern.
And who through the grime and in the babel still sees and hears,
Always the flawless beauty,—always the Chord