TALISMAN
Under a splintered mast,torn from ship and castnear her hull,a stumbling shepherd foundembedded in the ground,a sea-gullof lapis lazuli,a scarab of the sea,with wings spread—curling its coral feet,parting its beak to greetmen long dead.
Under a splintered mast,torn from ship and castnear her hull,a stumbling shepherd foundembedded in the ground,a sea-gullof lapis lazuli,a scarab of the sea,with wings spread—curling its coral feet,parting its beak to greetmen long dead.
Under a splintered mast,torn from ship and castnear her hull,
a stumbling shepherd foundembedded in the ground,a sea-gull
of lapis lazuli,a scarab of the sea,with wings spread—
curling its coral feet,parting its beak to greetmen long dead.