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/ I. With lips that had hushed all their fury / Of foam and of winds that were strewn, / Of storm and of turbulent hurry, / The ocean sighed; heralding soon / A ship of miraculous glory, / Of pearl and of fire -- the moon.
/ II. And up from the East, with a slipping / And shudder and clinging of light, / With a loos'ning of clouds and a dipping, / Outbound for the Havens of Night, / With a silence of sails and a dripping, / The vessel came, wonderful white.
/ III. Then heaven and ocean were sprinkled / With splendor; for every sheet / And spar, and its hollow hull twinkled / With mother-of-pearl. And the feet / Of spirits, that followed it, crinkled / The billows that under it beat.