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Speak O man less recent Fragmentary fossil	A
Primal pioneer of pliocene formation	B
Hid in lowest drifts below the earliest stratum	C
Of volcanic tufa	D
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Older than the beasts the oldest Palaeotherium	C
Older than the trees the oldest Cryptogami	C
Older than the hills those infantile eruptions	E
Of earth's epidermis	F
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Eo Mio Plio whatsoe'er the 'cene' was	G
That those vacant sockets filled with awe and wonder	H
Whether shores Devonian or Silurian beaches	I
Tell us thy strange story	J
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Or has the professor slightly antedated	K
By some thousand years thy advent on this planet	K
Giving thee an air that's somewhat better fitted	K
For cold blooded creatures	L
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Wert thou true spectator of that mighty forest	K
When above thy head the stately Sigillaria	J
Reared its columned trunks in that remote and distant	K
Carboniferous epoch	M
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Tell us of that scene the dim and watery woodland	K
Songless silent hushed with never bird or insect	K
Veiled with spreading fronds and screened with tall club mosses	I
Lycopodiacea	I
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When beside thee walked the solemn Plesiosaurus	I
And around thee crept the festive Ichthyosaurus	I
While from time to time above thee flew and circled	K
Cheerful Pterodactyls	I
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Tell us of thy food those half marine refections	I
Crinoids on the shell and Brachipods au naturel	A
Cuttlefish to which the pieuvre of Victor Hugo	N
Seems a periwinkle	A
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Speak thou awful vestige of the earth's creation	B
Solitary fragment of remains organic	O
Tell the wondrous secret of thy past existence	I
Speak thou oldest primate	K
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Even as I gazed a thrill of the maxilla	A
And a lateral movement of the condyloid process	I
With post pliocene sounds of healthy mastication	B
Ground the teeth together	J
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And from that imperfect dental exhibition	B
Stained with express juices of the weed nicotian	B
Came these hollow accents blent with softer murmurs	I
Of expectoration	B
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Which my name is Bowers and my crust was busted	K
Falling down a shaft in Calaveras County	K
But I'd take it kindly if you'd send the pieces	I
Home to old Missouri	K

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