Synthesis
Words that pass with ease and grace Would surely clash, spoke face to face And thoughts divergent find a way To coalesce and calmly lay Amid the controversy Sincerest deference can’t deny The adverse arrows, aimed too high For any piercing mortal wound Although, disguisedly festooned They flutter, flags of mercy ‘Til nothing has been said at all Two voices raised, two meanings fall And, graced with manners civilized No sentiment is found revised By erudite assertion What then can forge a change of heart That brings together worlds apart And unifies in mind and passion All that arm of flesh can fashion Into true conversion?