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First Line: The time was carboniferous
Last Line: Encyclope-di-a!
Subject(s): Fossils


The time was Carboniferous,
The place was by the shore.
Some molecules vociferous
Of Fe SO[4]
Induced a little conifer
To take them in her stem,
Letting go the blood and bone of her,
And making room for them;
Until the plant ridiculous
Was a fossil, -- nothing more, --
All because of that iniquitous
Shrewd Fe SO[4].

'Twas the time of Homo Sapiens,
The place, -- a library.
Some dusty tomes of weight immense
By subtle sorcery
Induced a great philosopher
To take them in his brain,
Rejecting, you of course infer,
Its former contents vain,
Until the sage rapacious
Became, one summer day,
A leather-backed veracious,
Encyclope-di-a!





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