vandals in their silent sandals sift the sands of time; <br />with fire and sword, hide hideous hoard of past poetic crime; and <br />better far, with metaphor they banish vanish'd rhyme; <br />and curse all verse banal or worse: their aim, the same -sublime.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amen-hot-hep-heptameter/
