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Nor yet alone primordial bivalve ! 

 Say, in thy nonage, didst thou not have 

 Some shell-fish she, by tender tie endeared, 

 To share thy mud, and pull thy downy beard ? 

 Her love to cherish, and to calm her fear 

 When MEGALOSAURUS fierce came rather near; 

 Or when GALUMPUS, monarch of the main, 

 Loud bellowing, shook afar the watery plain ! 

 Or COL-LOS-SOCH-E-LYS, grim giant of the shore, 

 Lashed out his tail, and gave his morning roar 

 Thundiferous ! 



How long, bemired, inglorious, didst thou sleep ? 

 Thy charms secreted by the envious deep, 

 Unknown, untasted, and unsung ! So lies 

 The fairest flower neath Arab s desert skies ; 

 So sleeps the gem within its rocky tomb ; 

 So blinks the planet in its distant gloom, 

 Till some rare savant brings it to the view 

 So, half the world, for ages, \&y perdue, 

 Till great COLOMBO chanced this way to steer, 

 And waked our dozing hemisphere, 

 One morning ! 



