I did the dragon's will until you came <br />Because I had fancied love a casual <br />Improvisation, or a settled game <br />That followed if I let the kerchief fall: <br />Those deeds were best that gave the minute wings <br />And heavenly music if they gave it wit; <br />And then you stood among the dragon-rings. <br />I mocked, being crazy, but you mastered it <br />And broke the chain and set my ankles free, <br />Saint George or else a pagan Perseus; <br />And now we stare astonished at the sea, <br />And a miraculous strange bird shrieks at us.<br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/her-triumph/
