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'riuMc was the (iroatost Aggregation 



Of wonders culled from every nation: 

 Ferocious beasts whose size gigantic 



Would make you squeal with terror fiaiitic 

 The lion and the unicorn, 

 Rhinoceros with frightful horn. 

 The hipjM) and the dromedary. 

 The tiger and the cassowary, 

 The tapir and the tall giraffe. 

 The zebra and two-headed calf, 

 The polar bear from Arctic snow. 

 And the Wild Man of Borneo. 

 All these and many more you'd see 

 In Barnum's great menagerie. 



But now old Barnum is outclassed, 



A greater showman's come at last. 



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For thirty years of strenuous days 



He's labored in all sorts of ways 

 To make this Unique Aggregation, 



Unparalleled Agglomeration 

 Of mammoths huge, and dinosaur, 



And lesser beasts that never saw 

 The light of science on them shed 



(Because they've been a long time dead). 

 He's searched the Ijounds of time and space 



To find each noble vanished race, 

 From Permian to Pleistocene 



Each geologic period's been 

 Profoundly searched with pick and hammei- 



To reveal its actors in the drama 

 Of Evolution and the History 



Of Life on Earth, to solve its mystery. 

 To show controlling all its actors 



The Four Inseparable Factors. 



From Egypt's desert strands he brings 

 Arsinotheres and other things. 



