JURASSIC PERIOD 
And e'en may serve, when he on love is bent, 
To act effective, as a blandishment. 
Small head the brute possesses for his size, 305 
And taken up well nigh with jaws and eyes. 
But though his brain is lodged in humble space, 
Down by his haunches, in a larger case, 
Some brainy tissue lies, as if in store 
Against a time his skull might harbour more. 310 
Much must he eat, for herbage is his food ; 
And save in fight his jaws are free from blood. 
But forms surpassing Stegosaurs are seen, 
In point of size, and of as weird a mien. 
Some here there are that look like plesiosaurs 315 
With elephantine legs, as on all fours 
They creep along. And some among the band 
From nose to tail-end eighty feet command. 
Some twenty tons a monster maybe weighs, 
And woe to him if into bogs he strays, 320 
For going there, for ever there he stays. 
Small headed are these Brontosaurs, since named, 
Although in trunk and limb they huge are framed. 
Quite simple are their tastes. The trees and plants 
Afford them all they need for sustenance. 325 
Others there are more brained, and on their noses 
A horn sticks up, as with rhinoceroses. 
Flesh eaters are these knobbed Ceratosaurs, 
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