Not All is Required - Sonnet 24

What breaks as divine inspiration now?

The ink flows asunder with several lacks

Of current, and beneath the parchment cracks

The weight of single indecisions. How

Could one draw collation, but to a scale

Intent to sling its sentence through the wall,

Yet yields not to the hammer as they call

For order and the courtroom splits the vale?

But not all is required: for to push

The mercy pen with too much heft, to shake

So hard the oakwood splits, would doubly break

The signature that forced it; and to hush

The grand march out would hasten evil’s song,

So let the caissons go rolling along.