T&A: Kraken

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Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep,
the Kraken sleepeth; faintest sunlight's 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 rot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain and for ages will lie
Battering upon huge sea worms 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 on the surface and die.