will
actually
lift a luminous whole;
turn
sheer despairing to most perfect gay,
nowhere
to here,never to beautiful:
a
little innocence creates a day.
And
something thought or done or wished without
a
little innocence,although it were
as
red as terror and as green as fate,
greyly
shall fail and dully disappear--
but
the proud power of himself death immense
is
not so as a little innocence
from Days of Innocence by E.E. Cummings