Weird weavers of the twilight of a world

Wrought, thread on kissing thread, the web of doom.

Grown insubstantial in the knitted gloom,

The bluffs loomed eerie, and the scanty trees

Were dwindled to remote dream-traceries

That never might be green or shield a nest.

All day with swinging stride Hugh forged southwest

Along the Yellowstone’s smooth-paven stream,

A dream-shape moving in a troubled dream;

And all day long the whispering weavers wove.