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How we came in the hour of dawn
   To a land where silence covered the sea,
To a harbour of virginal mystery
   And a little pier forlorn?

For the people fled away
   When they saw my terrible ship,
Livid, phantom-like and grey,
   Led by Algol, at break of day,
Into that harbour slip!

But one fled not. One stood
   On the edge of the little pier,
A boy — a boy in his solitude!
   A girl — a girl in her fear!

No boy — no girl; a god, a god!
   And I hoisted the sails of my ship;
And Cruelty, with Love on board,
   — Your finger on your lip!
Went sailing, sailing over the sea
   Till the sun grew like the moon;
Till the moon — oh, mother of mystery!
   Till the moon grew like the sun.

And Algol, the Demon's Eye, looked down
   Upon that curious ship;
Algol, the Eye of the Demon, shone —
   Your finger on your lip!
But Love and I played a deeper game
   Than any Demons know,