When the passion was young

And wisdom was a song afar

Mesmerised by

White flowers on the wall

Purity, cyan sky

Bulky desk, pupil elfin

Destiny said stand tall

Whether by the star's shine

Or under the city light

Or when the officelamp helped to guide

The curious eyes

Searching by the library

Ran free the wonder within

No end in sight to the quest

No end to creativity

 

To teach was to plant fields

Raise a garden in Athens

Engage in dialektos

Loyal subject to royal clause

Was the order correct?

What can "correct" mean in the context?

We'll figure it over a coffee, at my place

By the way, which George was it?

Then at night, transcribe: "transliterate"

Find the ways to de-stress

Delve deeper and deeper

Find the root

Time flew

Wish we could

Re-experience by a simple tense-change

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There were giggles, friendly smirks

Respect, fear, tough debates

Peaceful hills then merged it all

Resolve made coal crystal

Between outings in the pubs

Founding events, secret clubs

Readings, meetings, greetings

Loaned buildings with low ceilings

Came soaring towers, charcoal dome

Piliscsaba, Esztergom

Augustine or Stephan

Their ecstatic vantage points

Snow piled, surface peeled

And underneath

We found home