No Dragons Here There Be

And now we come near to the edge

Where once the princes sailed...

Ahoy! A ripple in the blue,

Where dragons’ wings have trailed!

With waves below and stars above,

We hang between the deeps—

Charybdis ever hungers here,

And Scylla never sleeps.

Yet as we gaze with hoping eyes

Upon that mirror blank,

Those hoping eyes stare lonesome back,

Their fires slowly banked.

The only heroes to be seen

Are by the starlight made—

’Til morning comes without remorse

To bid the heroes fade.

Now this we ask: where have they gone?

For surely there must be

A ship that sails straight out of myth

Upon so vast a sea!

But we could sail for all our days

And ne’er a siren see—

While once upon a time there were,

No dragons here there be.