Kraken n. A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus. "To believe all that has been said of the sea serpent or kraken, would be credulity; to reject the possibility of their existence, would be presumption.""Like a kraken huge and black."
... those thoughts, that sudden leap From being's sea, like the isle-seeming Kraken, With whose great rise the ocean all is shaken And a heart-tremble quivers through the deep; Give me that growth which some perchance deem sleep, Wherewith the steadfast coral-stems uprise, Which, by the toil of gathering energies, Their upward way into ... — The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell Read full book for free!
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