Through the arborescent ferns.

Doing acrobatic turns,

Archaeopteryx bore chorus,

When, with mighty Mososaurus

And Triceratops the proud

Through the tepid seas you plowed.

Now you hearken to the clatter

Of the tea-cups, and the chatter

Of an upstart race, as dwarfish

As a Cenozoic crawfish!

Though they say you re not carnivorous,

Wag that tail and Lord deliver us!

Did some dragon-slaying Horus

Cause your death, great Brontosaurus?

Did the marshes cloak your glory

With their mud? (A shameful story!)

Once you breathed, Creation s wonder,

And your footsteps woke the thunder.

Now, they treat you with disdain;

Say you had a two-pound brain,

Not an ounce of wit to spare,

And the courage of a hare!