From the duke they would have taken his birthright; the church and religion they would have cast in a new mould; the bishops and clerks they would have new-fashioned, if not utterly laid aside; banished many of the nobles; …

a political engineer

A relief sculpture of Ahura Mazda stands among the ruins of Persepolis in Iran.

Why not sempiternal / Thou and I? Our vernal / Brightness keeping, / Time outleaping: / Passed the hodiernal!