The Kraken

Published by Lord Tennyson in 1830

 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 seaworms 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. ''