Outside the Walls

Outside the Walls

Reflections 10th August

Shifting Sands

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Richard Merrick
Aug 10, 2025
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’T is a wild place to fetch, the waves.
Break on the Doombar sands,
And from the hills the eddying winds
Perplex the steadiest hands.”
Excerpt from "The Padstow Lifeboat" By Henry Sewell Stokes

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