Amazing monster! that, for aught I know,
With the first sight of thee didst make our race For ever stare!
O flat and shocking face,
Grimly divided from the breast below!
Thou that on dry land horribly dost go With a split body and most ridiculous pace,
Prong after prong, disgracer of all grace,
Long-useless-finned, haired, upright, unwet, slow!
O breather of unbreathable, sword-sharp air,
How canst exist?
How bear thyself, thou dry And dreary sloth?
What particle canst share Of the only blessed life, the watery?
I sometimes see of ye an actual pair Go by! linked fin by fin! most odiously.
