THE SEA SERPENT.
The sea serpent rules the ancient ocean, His home is a green and amethyst
castle; The saw-tooth shark is his humble
vassal Like all that move with finny motion. (’Way down in the bottom,of the sea!)
Many a mariner has grown pale Safe on shore as he told about (When three points east and nine days
out) Seeing the flip of that phantom tail (’Way down in the bottom of the sea!)
Princesses have been his brides And many a jonquil-faced young nun, — Oh, he was living before the sun With lus candle lighted the sucking tides (’Way down in the bottom of the sea!)
He will be living when the earth is rotten And never a place to root will be, — The span of his time is eternity When you, my lad, and this *song are forgotten—(’Way down deep in the bottom of the sea ! ) —Kathleen AJ. Gibson, in the Kaleidoscope.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 63
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