Trilobite, Graptolite
Nautilus pie
Seas were calcareous,
Oceans were dry.
Eocene, Miocene,
Pliocene, tuff,
Lias, and trias,
And that is enough.
Oh, sing a song of phosphates,
Fibrine in a line,
Four and twenty follicles
In the van of time!
When phosphorescence
Evoluted brain,
Superstition ended,
Man began to reign.
[Rev. Joseph Cook, in "Grip."
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