Prose and Poetry : The Kraken

Education English | Prose and Poetry : The Kraken | Below the hundreds 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 side; above him swell
Huge sponges of millenial 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 bath 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 angles to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise on the surface die
Taken From Alfred Tennyson (Selected Poetry), 1951