Quote of the Day (Anna Hempstead Branch, Warning of the “Magic of the Coin That Sings”)

“Oh, when we speak, Great God, let us speak well.
Beware of shapes, beware of letterings,
For in them lies such magic as alters dream,
Shakes cities down and moves the inward scheme.
Beware the magic of the coin that sings.
These coins are graved with supernatural powers
And magic wills that are more strong than ours.”--Anna Hempstead Branch, Sonnets From a Lock Box and Other Poems (1929)