The Beast, it lies, The Beast, it cheats, It gnaws and gnashes at your knees and feet, Its teeth are long, Its teeth, they scar, No person is left unmarked It size, unmeasurable Its weight, unweighed Its whereabouts, untraceable Its name, unnamed, But the Beast wears a familiar mask you see A mask so familiar, so familiar indeed, This unmeasurable, untraceable, unnamable beast, Who gnaws and gnashes at your knees and feet It roams by night, by day it hides The fearsome beast who lives inside.