Following is a poem my daughter wrote for a history assignment combining Revelation 13:1 and the Viking's attack on monasteries in the Middle Ages. When the monks saw the great ships with enormous dragon heads on their bows appearing out of the fog to approach the shore, they thought that the Scriptures were being fulfilled...
Standing on a sandy shore
The monk would pray but eat no more
Across the sea as John had said
Came a beast desiring dread
The dragon stood upon the sand
The monk cried out but all in vain
He was killed by the creatures hand
Which spread its terror like falling rain
On everyone it set its brand
On its head were blasphemous names
It never could have stood in war
But hid until its great downpour
laid bare all of its shames
At last the beast was gone
Like mist upon the morning air
As evening turned to dawn
The dragon crawled into his lair
~gme
“And the dragon stood on the sand of the sea shore.
Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea,
having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns were ten diadems,
and on his heads were blasphemous names.”
~ Revelation 13:1
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