Blackrock.
Fiercesomely gaunt like some surprised
mammoth it rises
out of sea\'s lash.
Time-blackened by relentless breakers
its great salined form
rears the warning that granite takes no
answering back.
Many before have suffered attack but
none more tragic
than Fisherman Jack\'s tug for in pulling
a capsizing pleasure-boat
away from death
hit rock and lost all hands from his own
deck and those of the Passenger.
Never before had there sounded such
wailing for with no survivors
and within landsight that old levithian
had gorged, then spat out before
daylight eighteen corpses.
Just as a reminder Blackrock at every
tide shows its formidable jaws
for all to be warned.