CRETACEOUS PERIOD 
Carried by birds, or borne upon the wind, 
From isle to isle wide regions may they find : 560 
Or floating on the waves be swept along 
Far from their native shores by currents strong. 
And by such casual means in part at least 
May these invaders have become possessed. 
Here, then, they are, and leafy offerings wave 565 
To deck, as it might be, the Greta's grave. 
For now her time is run. 
Thus through her years 
Did Life expand throughout the hemispheres ; 
Through land and sea, through rise and fall of clime, 
Whilst Man still slumbered in the womb of Time. 570 
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