Alchemisland

The end of all rainbows

Where mightiness ends

Where mightier no longer lends itself

To prolonging Rome.

Let clefts 

And shelves and sheets and seas 

And peaks and marshes rank with disease 

Mark borders, beyond which no Roman feet 

No roman fleets 

No roman steels

Shall seek to steal

Or impose leanmaking tithes 

A screaming golden eagle 

Moral feeling is the schemer

Acting in accordance 

With a divine schema 

Twixt Her course, and nature’s wont

Is drawn a chord no sword can solve

And so change 

And so a chain 

Around chainless necks they placed reins.

Let nature delineate the ends of places,

Let Rome be Rome, hallowed place 

And let her end be the Euphrates.

Bold Trajan from older moulds made

A limit breaker, forward

Plot limits, put in her place

Rome or the unlimited.