Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:12:20 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Mot du jour


>Reg Lilly wrote:
>>
>> George Trail wrote:
>...
>> > 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 arms the slumbring green.
>> > There he hath lain for ages, and will lie
>> > Battening on 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 and on the surface die.
>> >
>> > Man is a poet. Catch the "abysmal." Cool.
>> >
>>         Thanks George
>>
>
>Yes, thanks indeed; it's a breathtaking poem. More
>of this!
>
>Joerg

Tennyson wrote it. I didn't.
G


George Trail
gtrail-AT-uh.edu
U.of Houston