Distinguished Genttlemen

The laurel wreath Bestowed on victors Every four years Blood, sweat and tears In Pythian Games Honoring Apollo At Delphi onto Greece In a classic ceremony The corruptible glory An immortal crown Prized to artists Public officials The poets of Rome And here at home A rebirth of antiquity With Apollo's oracles Music and poetry Prophecy and medicine Things of God as things of men The reform defecient renascence