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