As architecture, as artifice It was an impressive entity, indeed Rising several stories in height, The winds at its top leading it to flutter In such a manner as there was considerable debate As to the identity of the visage at the apex, Though there was no doubt that the edifice Was majestic as it stood implacably *****, Its folds billowing in an inscrutable silence, And if one were to inquire as to its origins Or the nature of the scaffolding it rested upon, Such questioning was curtly dismissed As irrelevancy of an unworthy and secular nature.