Troy

TROY Fabled proud towers across the Aegean Sheer walls never breached; From far-off Hellas rarely seen Till by the angry Greeks full-reached. Burnt and humbled, a culture erased. After ten years the city strong-walled Was obliterated, washed away, effaced - And history was appalled. So also the Atlantis, Cumorah,and Inca delirium Drowned in the flow of time, Killed in their flowering, like Illium : Such cultural perfection sublime. The tide of history washes and cleans Leaving no trace of stillborn might-have-beens