I taught last April spring's companion, Ling
two-thirty's thriller, thickly theory-thought Chapter, in its writing
On diffusion level-ordered short-a tensing claims, and gliding
By there, how it does for all the facts an answer bring
In analogy!  Then off, at once it's a-swing
Onto sound change brought forth in perception:  structural tiding
Preserved in such shifts.  My heart in hiding
Stirs for a word-- the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and thinking react, the pattern of sound's here
Lexical!  AND it's grammar guiding speech when, if alien
Forms seem optimal, more simplified, they will appear!
No wonder of it, sheer plod may scan a zillion
Line of Finnish song, but in that mere
Paul trawls alone, and finds gold in prillion.
