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How the mountains talked together	A
Looking down upon the weather	A
When they heard our friend had planned his	B
Little trip among the Andes	C
How they'll bare their snowy scalps	D
To the climber of the Alps	D
When the cry goes through their passes	E
Here comes the great Agassiz	B
Yes I'm tall says Chimborazo	B
But I wait for him to say so	B
That's the only thing that lacks he	F
Must see me Cotopaxi	B
Ay ay the fire peak thunders	B
And he must view my wonders	B
I'm but a lonely crater	A
Till I have him for spectator	A
The mountain hearts are yearning	G
The lava torches burning	G
The rivers bend to meet him	H
The forests bow to greet him	H
It thrills the spinal column	I
Of fossil fishes solemn	I
And glaciers crawl the faster	A
To the feet of their old master	A
Heaven keep him well and hearty	F
Both him and all his party	F
From the sun that broils and smites	B
From the centipede that bites	B
From the hail storm and the thunder	A
From the vampire and the condor	A
From the gust upon the river	A
From the sudden earthquake shiver	A
From the trip of mule or donkey	F
From the midnight howling monkey	F
From the stroke of knife or dagger	A
From the puma and the jaguar	J
From the horrid boa constrictor	A
That has scared us in the picture	A
From the Indians of the Pampas	B
Who would dine upon their grampas	B
From every beast and vermin	K
That to think of sets us squirmin'	K
From every snake that tries on	K
The traveller his p'ison	K
From every pest of Natur'	A
Likewise the alligator	A
And from two things left behind him	H
Be sure they'll try to find him	H
The tax bill and assessor	A
Heaven keep the great Professor	A
May he find with his apostles	B
That the land is full of fossils	B
That the waters swarm with fishes	B
Shaped according to his wishes	B
That every pool is fertile	L
In fancy kinds of turtle	L
New birds around him singing	G
New insects never stinging	G
With a million novel data	M
About the articulata	M
And facts that strip off all husks	B
From the history of mollusks	B
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And when with loud Te Deum	H
He returns to his Museum	H
May he find the monstrous reptile	N
That so long the land has kept ill	O
By Grant and Sherman throttled	M
And by Father Abraham bottled	M
All specked and streaked and mottled	M
With the scars of murderous battles	B
Where he clashed the iron rattles	B
That gods and men he shook at	M
For all the world to look at	M
God bless the great Professor	A
And Madam too God bless her	A
Bless him and all his band	M
On the sea and on the land	M
Bless them head and heart and hand	M
Till their glorious raid is o'er	A
And they touch our ransomed shore	A
Then the welcome of a nation	K
With its shout of exultation	K
Shall awake the dumb creation	K
And the shapes of buried aeons	B
Join the living creature's paeans	B
Till the fossil echoes roar	A
While the mighty megalosaurus	B
Leads the palaeozoic chorus	B
God bless the great Professor	A
And the land his proud possessor	A
Bless them now and evermore	A

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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