From what old ballad, or from what rich frame <br />Did you descend to glorify the earth? <br />Was it from Chaucer's singing book you came? <br />Or did Watteau's small brushes give you birth? <br /> <br />Nothing so exquisite as that slight hand <br />Could Raphael or Leonardo trace. <br />Nor could the poets know in Fairyland <br />The changing wonder of your lyric face. <br /> <br />I would possess a host of lovely things, <br />But I am poor and such joys may not be. <br />So God who lifts the poor and humbles kings <br />Sent loveliness itself to dwell with me.<br /><br />Alfred Joyce Kilmer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wealth-10/
