Lethe

The genteel newsmen-messengers beseech
Kept experts’ help wherever regents render
Excesses, tell perverted referees
(Themselves dependent desk-clerk henchmen) whether

Emergent preferences (re-strengthened fetters)
They’d temper: meter creeds, let tenets gentle—
Deterrent precedent-nepenthes—tether
Revenges when berserk bellwethers wrestle.

Where clement meets severe, detente resembles
Shrewd schemes’ embezzled hedge, eschews meet sentence,
Trebles neglect’s extent. Whenever meddled,
Perplexed precepts seem blent, preempted, lessened.

New pledges stretch, pervert events embedded;
Less vehemence begets effects demented.