1. I saw on the tablet of imagination an orphan girl
Whose parents were taken by death one day in Louisiana

2. Oh, what an honest, truthful painter you are
Even if grief and anguish rage in the soul

3. Alas for her, she tasted orphanhood as a child
Her pillars were destroyed and her youth was humbled

4. If only the one who suffered death’s hour
Would shroud her parents as it folded them

5. Like a chick whose father the archer shot so he shrieked
Then its mother rose against him and shot him

6. With no father to seek shade under his wing’s shadow
No mother wanting her shade and chicks

7. A submarine in ambush under the deep
Honest, seeing the mast but it does not see it

8. It is the whale, or in the whale is one like it
If it were steel, it would be its brother

9. I loose disasters on the sailors
And pain when its jaws gape

10. Traitorous when it dives, predatory when it floats
Accursed in its swimming and its voyaging

11. It passes the night devastating innocent ships
And wrongs those who don't cross its path

12. If Moses' coffin had met it, it would have unleashed
Its terrors and burned its protectors

13. Had Noah's ark not been obscured and hidden
It would not have been safe from its blows and malice

14. For there was no builder, no rider aboard it
No sea contained it or shielded it

15. Shame on the knowledge you claim to have
If the science of souls cannot rein it in