Serendipity

Three princes of old Serendip
feeling in charge of their world
were forever amazed to discover
how chance in fact governed their fate.
Meandering paths and off-hand remarks
produced most remarkable leads
to unforeseen fortune and unsought-for good
in areas large, small, in-between.
This incredible luck, this miraculous touch
they possessed became legendary.
Soon a marvelous coinage indeed
bestowed on their names fame aplenty.
Today all blessed with errant bounty
can credit their princely rewards
to that mystic inexplicability,
the surprising "serendipity."