chapter 11 sea beast
Opening Pandora's box in nautical design,
Unwitting to uncertainty I made the danger mine,
Trod the hoary-timbered boards, while relishing the brine.
Oh, token of my terror! (For I bear the scars today,)
For grasping this reality, the branded price I'd pay.
The hunching deck, the swaying rail, the tremble of the mast,
Hearkened me to scan a strange upheaval rising fast-
Eloquent sailors' cursing now enlightened me at last.
As from the abyss rising in a terror-storm of spray,
Behemoth of a nightmare gleamed beneath a startled sky,
Yowling with a siren shriek that turned my wits to clay,
Spun from thread of horror yarn, a beast to mystify-
Spawn of oceanic womb- all reason to defy!
Chapter 12 The Battle
Unwitting to uncertainty I made the danger mine,
Trod the hoary-timbered boards, while relishing the brine.
Oh, token of my terror! (For I bear the scars today,)
For grasping this reality, the branded price I'd pay.
The hunching deck, the swaying rail, the tremble of the mast,
Hearkened me to scan a strange upheaval rising fast-
Eloquent sailors' cursing now enlightened me at last.
As from the abyss rising in a terror-storm of spray,
Behemoth of a nightmare gleamed beneath a startled sky,
Yowling with a siren shriek that turned my wits to clay,
Spun from thread of horror yarn, a beast to mystify-
Spawn of oceanic womb- all reason to defy!
Chapter 12 The Battle