Standard (EADGBE)
The cause is Ozymandian.
The mapa sacra continent
is sanded and bevelled,
the land lorn and levelled
by some unrecorded and powerful hand
(repeat sequence for all repetitions of this phrase)
where all of the twenty thousand attending your footfall
and the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls,
and the records they left are cryptic at best,
lost in obsolescence.
The text will not yield, nor x ray reveal
with any fluorescence
where the hand of the master begins and ends.
(repeat sequence for all repetitions of this phrase)
"It's alright,"
and "It's all over now,"
and boarded the plane,
his belt unfastened;
the boy was known to show unusual daring.
And, called a boy,
this older man confounding Tammany Hall
(In whose employ
King Tamanend himself preceded Johns fall).