In alternating streams, like some huge whale1030
Which roves the ocean, spouting up the floods.
Then did that mound of waters strongly heave
And break itself, and threw upon the shore
A thing more terrible than all our fears.
The sea itself rushed landward, following
That monstrous thing. I shudder at the thought.
What form and bearing had the monster huge!1035
A bull it was in form, with dark-green neck
Uplifted high, its lofty front adorned