Human reason is beautiful and invincible. <br />No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, <br />No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. <br />It establishes the universal ideas in language, <br />And guides our hand so we write Truth and Justice <br />With capital letters, lie and oppression with small. <br />It puts what should be above things as they are, <br />Is an enemy of despair and a friend of hope. <br />It does not know Jew from Greek or slave from master, <br />Giving us the estate of the world to manage. <br />It saves austere and transparent phrases <br />From the filthy discord of tortured words. <br />It says that everything is new under the sun, <br />Opens the congealed fist of the past. <br />Beautiful and very young are Philo-Sophia <br />And poetry, her ally in the service of the good. <br />As late as yesterday Nature celebrated their birth, <br />The news was brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo. <br />Their friendship will be glorious, their time has no limit. <br />Their enemies have delivered themselves to destruction.<br /><br />Czeslaw Milosz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/incantation/
