April 07, 2005

Despair and Heroism

Kraken
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

Unnumbered and enormous polypi

Winnow with giant fins the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

Battering upon huge seaworms in his sleep,

Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;

Then once by men and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

From the same guy who wrote Ulysses and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Cannon to right of them
Cannon to left of them
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;

Posted by Linkmeister at April 7, 2005 04:40 PM
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