The Kraken.
Below the thunders of the upper deep,1
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,2
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep,3
The Kraken sleepeth : faintest sunlights flee4
About his shadowy sides : above him swell5
Huge sponges of millennial growth and
height ;6
height ;6
And far away into the sickly light,7
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell8
Unnumbered and enormous polypi9
Winnow with giant fins the slumbering
green.10
green.10
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie,11
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,12
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep ;13
Then once by man and angels to be seen,14
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface
die.15
die.15