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And since the trilobites have passed away
The continent has been formed, the mountains grown
In oceans' deepened caves new beings play,
And Man now sits on Neptune's ancient throne.
The race of Man shall perish, but the eyes
Of Trilobites eternal be in stone,
And seem to stare about with wild surprise
At changes greater than they yet have known.
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Ode to a Trilobite, by Timothy A. Conrad (1840)