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l-'roni Patatioiiias \viiitr\- (-(jast 



Tho I^ijrotfierinni and a host 

 Of creatures strange, of times Long past, 



Perished beneath the Antarctic blast. 

 From far Austraha's shores remote 



Diprotodon is hither brought. 

 From famous deserts of Karroo 



The Moschops strange has come to view 

 A Plesiosaur from Enghsh .seas 



Whose graceful form is sure to please. 



Hut all these look like thirty cents 



Beside the rich magnificence 

 ( )f Ma.stodons and Dinosaurs, 



Of great Titanotheres and scores 

 Of creatures scarce inferior 



That came from our interior — 

 F'rom South Dakota and Nebraska. 



Texas, Alberta or Alaska — 

 The beasts that once in grand })roce.ssion 



Of this our country held possession: 

 The Permian reptiles strange and wild. 



Fit bogies for a nervous chikl. 

 The dreadful Dinosauria 



Which red in tooth and gory are. 

 The mammals from Paleocene 



With tritubercular teeth are seen. 

 The n:any horned I'intathere 



With horns instead of brains. I fear. 

 Titanotheres, the theme romantic 



Of Osborn's monograph gigantic. 

 Trilophodons and Mastodons 



And giant Megabelodons 

 Upon which the Professor scheme; 



To publish soon a dozen reams. 

 Describing them in learned style or 



Dividing them in twenty ])hyla; 

 And finallv the Age of Man 



