NEBULA TO MAN 
Pugnacious too, with big and sharp-toothed jaws 
That meet sometimes in necky Brontosaurs. 330 
But dinosaurs there are less clumsy framed, 
Here lives and thrives Ornitholestes named. 
No sight is he, portentous to the eye, 
As those long yards of life, Diplodoci. 
Flesh is his food, and, be his taste what may, 335 
Sharp tapering claws are his to hold his prey. 
With hollow bones fleet does he trip along, 
And graceful looks he awkward brutes among. 
And as a one-eyed man amongst the blind 
To monarch's place would facile pathway find ; 340 
So here where Beauty niggard favour shows 
As some Apollo may this " raider " pose. 
But though in parts Columbia's land is rife 
With strange and monstrous forms of reptile life, 
Yet through her scenes is life its progress gaining, 345 
Much on the lines in other lands obtaining. 
Thick is her soil with ferns and piny trees, 
Crocodiles are swarming in her estuaries, 
Ganoids and sharks abundant in her seas, 
Plesiosaurs numerous up and down her strands, 350 
And little mammals active through her lands. 
Indeed throughout the world through all these times, 
With little variation in the climes, 
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