Westminster Abbey Poem by Frank Avon

Living in the past,
among the dead, if you will,
monarchs and prophets,
their temples, his own,
their arches and thrones,
throngs marching down the aisle,
their chorales and plainsong,
alive in his eyes,
the historical an aperture
into the spiritual within.

Ossian and Rowley
were not imposters:
what they saw,
he could draw;
and then his Sketches
(Poetical) worked variations
on the cadences
of Spenser, Shakespeare & Milton:
'Ages are All Equal,
But Genius is Always
Above the Age.'