collaborative exercise

a set of words both history and thought
gone a great distance with a single touch
no emphasis we give to matters such

thinking that hours of work may go for naught
completion's hope to my faint heart i clutch
a set of words both history and thought

these are the matters of which i've been taught
no need to marvel nor yet to make much
of a technique that's no more than a crutch
a set of words both history and thought