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FEATHERSTONE'S DOOM, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twist thou and twine! In light and gloom
Last Line: Thy web the shifting sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.


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.





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