From the Depths
Below the thunders of the upper deep
Far beneath the abysmal sea
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The kraken sleeps, faintest sunlights flee

His shadowy sides above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height
And far away into the sickly light
From many a wondrous, secret cell

The kraken sleeps within the depths
A figment of our own darkest visage
For millions of years there he stirs
Until from the depths, emerge

Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green
There has he lain for ages
And for ages he will lie

Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep
Until the latter fire heats the deep
Then once by land he’s to be seen
In roaring he will rise and on the surface
The kraken sleeps within the depths
A figment of our own darkest visage
For millions of years there he stirs
Until from the depths, emerge