I'll show thee the sinuous track By the slow-moving annelid made, Or the trilobite, that, farther back, In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid. Thou shalt see, in his Jurassic tomb, The plesiosaurus embalmed; In his oolitic prime and his bloom, Iguanodon, safe and unharmed!


In: John Burroughs (ed.), Songs of Nature

Bret Harte Quotes

I'll show thee the sinuous track By the slow-moving annelid made, Or the trilobite, that, farther back, In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid. Thou...

I'll show thee the sinuous track By the slow-moving annelid made, Or the trilobite, that, farther back, In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid. Thou...

I'll show thee the sinuous track By the slow-moving annelid made, Or the trilobite, that, farther back, In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid. Thou...

I'll show thee the sinuous track By the slow-moving annelid made, Or the trilobite, that, farther back, In the old Potsdam sandstone was laid. Thou...