“ASCENDED A HAND, LIKE THE SIGHT OF LAND”
Crooked, gigantic, and lean and gaunt,
And ebon, and naked and vast,
It hid the skies from the terrified eyes
Of those who beheld aghast.
Sombre and grim as a blind man’s night,
It arose like a mountain peak;
Each finger-bone was a pillar of stone,
Each claw was a dragon’s beak.