Waxing Whales.

...to waxing fears and waning years
came man to the garden sea.
to kill the sighs, primeval cries,
the tears of the plankton sea
The great tears of the plankton sea.

-part of a companion poem for the most excellent musical composition And God Created Great Whales by Alan Hovaness
who intergrated the recorded cries and deep bellows of the Blue Whale into the piece. Moving.