That festal morning, never had a mind

To trudge the little league and join the crowd—

Even for me is miracle vouchsafed!

How pointless proves the sneer at miracles!

As if, contrariwise to all we want

And reasonably look to find, they graced

Merely those graced-before, grace helps no whit,

Unless, made whole, they need physician still.

I—sceptical in every inch of me—

Did I deserve that, from the liquid name