Below the Thunders… -

Below the thunders of the upper deep

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides;

above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell

Unnumber’d and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green

There hath he lain for ages, and will lie

Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;

Then once by man and angels to be seen

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die