Joseph Simon Newman Quote

This ball was once a glowing mass Of mixed and superheated gas Which cooled to liquid, shrank in girth, Solidified and turned to earth.


Poems for Penguins and Other Lyrical Lapses, Geology, Greenburg. 1941


This ball was once a glowing mass Of mixed and superheated gas Which cooled to liquid, shrank in girth, Solidified and turned to earth.

This ball was once a glowing mass Of mixed and superheated gas Which cooled to liquid, shrank in girth, Solidified and turned to earth.

This ball was once a glowing mass Of mixed and superheated gas Which cooled to liquid, shrank in girth, Solidified and turned to earth.

This ball was once a glowing mass Of mixed and superheated gas Which cooled to liquid, shrank in girth, Solidified and turned to earth.