Serpent

I am the symbol of Creation and Destruction I am the beginning and the end. With my tail in my mouth I am the Circle of Eternity. Wisdom is in my eyes And the dusk of wisdom lurks amid my coils. My track circles the world And I loop my coils around the Universe. My head waves among the stars And the nations fall prostrate before me. Coiled, head upright, I am the spirit of the sea. The world-shaking dinosaur was my henchman And the flying dragons were my footmen. The ancients knew me. They reared shrines and altars And I taught them dim, dusky wisdom. I coiled in the ruins of Troy and Babylon And on the forgotten streets of Nineveh. The Norse called me Midgaard and built their galleys Like a sea-serpent. The Egyptians and the Indians called me Ysis And the Phoenecians Baal. I am the sea that girdles the world. I am the first and I shall be the last. I am the Serpent of the Ages.