The Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His antient, 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

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant fins the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;

Then once by men[errata 1] and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.