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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Robert Stephen Hawker 1804–75

Featherstone’s Doom

TWIST thou and twine! in light and gloom

A spell is on thine hand;

The wind shall be thy changeful loom,

Thy web the shifting sand.

Twine from this hour, in ceaseless toil,

On Blackrock’s sullen shore;

Till cordage of the sand shall coil

Where crested surges roar.

’T is for that hour, when, from the wave,

Near voices wildly cried;

When thy stern hand no succor gave,

The cable at thy side.

Twist thou and twine! in light and gloom

The spell is on thine hand;

The wind shall be thy changeful loom,

Thy web the shifting sand.