CAINOZOIC AGE 
EOCENE PERIOD 
As one, deep in some tale of days long gone, 
Of which no record is, save his alone, 
Would grieve to find, where great his interest lay, 
From his rare script whole pages torn away. 
So he who Nature's rock-told tale would know 5 
Must have, and oft, his eager soul brought low, 
As conning through the archives of the stone, 
He finds page after page, e'en chapters, gone. 
So now a new life-world is all around, 
The steps to which are rather guessed than found : i o 
And Life is as on lofty hill sublimed, 
With mists below, that hide the path she climbed. 
Still, though a veil about the way be cast, 
Things present are the outcome of the past ; 
And this new life we here see all around 1 5 
Was link by link with all the past close bound. 
Time oft destroys : yet oft it but conceals, 
And what is hid Man's industry reveals ; 
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