And the organ-shrill of the equinox,

Which musters the hordes in line,

Comes echoing back from the low frontier,

And crags where the breakers boom,

Like the crooning notes of a lorelei,

For I am the sleuth of Doom.

And ever the cry of the wander-lure,

Alert with a lifting wing,

Is urging me on through the sludge and spume,

With a sugg and a heave and swing.