 Wizards.
By the one and only Alfred
Noyes.
There's many a proud wizard in Araby and
Egypt
Can read the silver writing of the stars as they
run;
And many a dark gypsy, with a pheasant in his
knapsack,
Has gathered more by moonshine than wiser men have
won;
But I know a
Wizardry
Can take a buried acorn
And whisper forests out of it, to tower against the
sun.
There's many a magician
in Bagdad and Benares
Can read you for a penny - what your future is to
be;
And a flock of crazy prophets that by staring at a
crystal
Can fill it with more fancies than there's herring
in the sea;
But I know a
Wizardry
Can break a freckled
egg-shell
And shake a thrush out of it, in every hawthorn
tree.
 There's many a crafty
alchemist in Mecca and
Jerusalem;
And Michael Scott and Merlin were reckoned to be
wise;
But I know a
wizardry
Can take a wisp of
sun-fire
And round it to a planet, and roll it through the
skies,
With cities, and sea ports, and little shining
windows,
And hedge-rows and gardens, and loving human
eyes.
"Oh wow, isn't that wonderful kids, I love this guy
Alfred Noyes.
He writes some of the best poetry and rhymes in the
world, and I think most of them on on my websites,
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