Antarctica the Polymorphess - AHAB

A strong current setting

With heavy gales and fog

Many a strange thing written

Down in the Captain’s log

Clouds of a snowy whiteness

Foreshadow immense fields of ice

South

Where the giant sleeps

Motionless, cold and proud

Eternal

Two worlds collide

Senses go numb

Sleeping

Dreamless aeons

And aeons

Will he ever

Dream again?

Antarctica the «Polymorphess»

Plays her game of bloody dice

She is so ragged and broken

Yet shatteringly adorable

Many words have been spoken

Her ways purely impassable

To the west: icebergs

Four hundred fathoms high

Our passage south is doubtful

O Father, hear our mournful sighs

This gigantic creature tossed

Its vast bulk across our thole board

Seizing one man — instantly lost

Peters plunged the blade and roared

Clouds of a snowy whiteness

Foreshadow immense fields of ice

Antarctica the «Polymorphess»

Plays her game of bloody dice

She’s so ragged and broken

Yet shatteringly adorable

Many words have been spoken

Her ways purely impassable