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REQUIEM TO THE DINOSAURS AND MASTODONS, by                    
First Line: Here roots a glebe of rough mesquite
Last Line: Was dear to her who sleeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ubada; Ubada, Muhammed Ibn
Subject(s): Amphibians; Bones; Dinosaurs; Skeletons


Here roots a glebe of rough mesquite
On dunes of grayish sand
Beneath whose mulch antiquity
Put rests that ever stand;
And now commemorate the beasts
That stalked about the land.

Nearby, the master-hand of man
Has wrought with might and main
Through zeal and self-experience,
Life's requisites to gain.
Long lines of fruited trees now thrive
Where once was scorching plain.

The dinosaurs no longer roam
O'er this eye-scanning knoll.
The mastodons, in archives deep
No more take daily stroll.
Long, long ago life's arteries
Were wrung from their control.

Complaints are none from Father Time
As patient watch he keeps
Upon the umbered skeletons
For whom no mother weeps;
But once the nurture of her young
Was dear to her who sleeps.





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