Some Pilgrim farer left behind.

Out where the shallows turn to blood,

Lost in the trailing weeds and mud,

A crimson crescent blinks at me—

A vagabond who loves the sea—

While mythic muse with ancient loom,

Who knows where Clytie’s flowers bloom,

Has wrought of weeds and tinsel string,

A garment suited to a king.

And look! some oracle of time—