Let me be a rondeau
With a sweet refrain,
Or an aliquando
Sonnet to the rain;

Let me be a lyric
Tenuous as air,
Or an a la Viereck
Passion song to hair;

Ballad, epic, quatrain,
Couplet--ay, a line--
"Let it rain or not rain,
Let it storm or shine."

Shape me as you list to,
Glorious or small;
Put a comic twist to
Anything at all.

Only give me fame that
Never, never dies,
Christen me a name that
Reaches to the skies.

This is my ambition:
Not the greatest rhyme,
Not the first position
On the page of time--