218 The Laurentian Hills 



Crustaceans crowd the shore-line, and that won- 

 derous trilobite, 



Lives on through many ages till Time of chalk so 

 white, 



So Silurian rocks are added to Laurentian nar- 

 row shore, 



And the Continents broad empire marches west- 

 ward ever more. 



II. 



Devonian seas are lapping round Silurian cape 



and bay, 

 New fish life fills the waters, and over them hold 



sway. 

 Strange forms in shield and buckler, in armor 



polished zright, 

 Ganoids and other fishes show their colors in the 



light. 

 I have seen a dozen fishes, impaled on block of 



slate 

 Stand out, as carved by nature, they're lying 



there in state: 



Seaweeds have left their impress in these endur- 

 ing sands of Time, 

 Stretched out in all their measures in many a 



lengthening line, 

 For the ebb had stretched them seaward, while 



the fish swam 'gainst the tide, 

 They were swimming toward the sea-shore, while 



swimming they have died. 

 Both plants and fishes, in the old Devonian floor, 



