GeoArt
Thou large-eyed mummy of the ancient rocks,
The Niobe of ocean, couldst thou tell
Of thine own times, and of the earthquake shocks
Which tore the ocean-bed where thou didst dwell;
What dream of wild Romance would then compare
With the strange truths thy history might unfold?
How would Geologists confounded, stare
To find their glittering theories were not gold?
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Ode to a Trilobite, by Timothy A. Conrad (1840)