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TIDE OF TIME.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

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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