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.
Vessals steer clear if with sense for fear
of wrecking against
its open maw when hidden by roarers
they float too near.
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 land-sight that old levithian
had gorged then spat out, before
daylight, all corpses.
Just as a reminder Blackrock at every
tide shows its formidable
jaws so be warned.