Ruler

Solemnly it straightens
To perfect the proportioned t
Remorselessly right and parallel
Rapping all matter to exact
Measurement of span and spade
Numerals betoken parts broken
Equal pieces line infinity
Supplanted by surface hard and
Taught line cuts the air
Incessant stretching somewhere
Supple space softly dissected
By piercing Euclidean procession
Cutting unknown to murky right and
Left the night for white paper edge
Pause to end that no line reaches
Phrases of the unending
Trapped by ruling line