Map of the Lighthouse at Alexandria

The second Ptolemy decreed no name
but his would be inscribed along the base
of the new pharos, and specially forbade
the architect from claiming this, his greatest
building: but Sostrates' mind was of wheels,
of process, of inner things; he made schemes
but kept to his king's words: when the crowd kneeled
during the dedication, PTOLEMY

the pharos read, PTOLEMY the Fatal,
above them PTOLEMY; but weather chaffed,
the plaster chipped, the name of Ptolemy
gave way, revealing SOSTRATES SON OF
DEXIPHANES OF KNIDOS ON BEHALF
OF ALL MARINERS TO THE SAVIOR GODS.