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.OlMcui lessreee,nt!]?Ta?mmlari/ fossil, 
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 " JPrimalpioneer of Pliocene form ct^io?i 3 
 
 Sid in lowest drifts Ijeloiv -the earliest, stratum 
 Q volcanic tufaf 
 
 - Olcler than the J)tct&t.v } the olde 
 
 Older t7ia7i the trees, the oldest Cryptogctmict 
 
Old 
 
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 is epidermis. 
 
 fyEoPlio wliatsoeer t7ie " cene'* was 
 1 Th at & oft iracan 1 j ocTi e foji lied with awe and usoncler- 
 shcresIDevo/tiajt orjStliirictn 2>ectc7iei? 
 us thy straiige 
 
3 
 
 the J*r ofes-s or $ ligli-tltj ccnte dct ^e cl 
 _Bu sortie -t^^OllSct.7^c^ years'thy aclveiiionthifjp7.a.ne) 
 Giving 1 thee an air ihais 4arn.4who41>ett*r fitted 
 For cold-blooded 
 
 tltcii true gpeetctfoi* of thai miglity 
 ?i above Hilt Jieacl -tlie stately Si 
 Rea,recl &f columned irutiksiii-flvtt rem 
 Carboniferous 
 
Tfll us of that scene tile dim a net watery 
 
 j s i ten tj 7ius7z e d } usttTi never 7>irflcr i 
 witli frecitttn/roKcls uncl$creeiiee{ tuitfi 
 
 op o di 
 
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 And aroimcl tkee, crept the e# til/ e Hethy 
 
 time to time aJbove tltee flew and. circT-erf 
 GheerfuT. Pterodactyls* 
 
. ot7iyfood -those 7ia7 * marine 
 Crinoiclf on tlie #7ie2l cmclB-racJiipocfs' au 7iatur><iZ 
 ieTi the pieuure of Victor Jingo 
 
 Seeing a periwiT^Me. ^ 
 
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 Cj thou awfu2 veftfae of t7 
 fidlitary frctr me7^t o rein a 272^ o r 
 
 t7if creation 
 
Tell tlte wondrouj Jeerets o tliu fctsi: existence __ 
 - iSpea It ! tliou. oldest Ja 
 
 lEven a.f ZgcL&ec? ct thrill of-tlte 
 lateral m cvemeirt tzftTie 
 
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 Jlnd f fro77i that iTnperfect cLerLtaZ 
 /Stainecl with, exjjressecl jui 
 
Came tJieselidll/ous 
 
 Of exjoeetorct tie 71 : 
 
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