Storm on the Island

• (1) "Storm on the Island"
• (2) "Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate./ This wizened earth has never troubled us"
• (3) "So that you listen to the thing you fear/ Forgetting that it pummels your house too."
• (4) "You might think that the sea is company,/ Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"
• (5) "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."