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...across a blackened sea we cut in flight, towards the Gate of Hercules...

Ahead was night, such onyx waters mirror flat and non reflecting

Aye... we sailed blindly and the world's end followed behind

Roaring, splitting, breaking, devouring hope, extinguishing light

For oh... what treasure we stole: rainbow gems, prism stone, stardust, diamond white

That deed cries equal sacrifice, nothing less than the naked life

Sucked down the pits everlasting night where once bold heroes solemnly slept,

Egyptian, Roman, Carthaginian, Greek... away with the riches, off and overboard!

The bait of greed... for this death is not the fate we seek! As I look up in agony

No sky I see... but high in the ropes with a ghostly glow fire blooms

That's when I'll know... another knot, another length, the Gate has been passed...