The Anathemata
Middle-sea and Lear-sea (continued)
Extend your hands
all you orantes
for the iron-dark shore
is to our lee
over the lead-dark sea
and schisted Ocrinuma looms in fairish visibility
and white-plumed riders shoreward go
and
THE BIRDS DECLARE IT
that wing white and low
that also leeward3 go
go leeward to the tor-lands
where the tin-veins maculate the fire-rocks.
David Jones notes
3 Leeward is to be pronounced lew-ard.
additional notes
a Ocrinum is the Roman name for The Lizard. Its geology is complex but does include some schists (a metamorphic rock with medium to large, flat, sheet-like grains).
comments
They fear being driven on to the rocks before they can round the promontory. The birds are an augury.