>>149322052For those the Race of REPTILE oft forsook
The diet of plants, and unfrequented scornโd
Her ferny bounty, bowing lowly down
To sniff out RATS; for which their heads as low
Bowโd down in THICKETS, sunk before the Tooth
Of despicable foes. With these in troop
Came TYRANNOSAUR, whom the RAPTORS callโd
REX, King of DINO, with minuscule arms;
To whose absurd Image daily by SUN
MAMMALIAN Virgins paid their Jokes and Laughs,
In TREETOPS also not unsung, where stood
Avian kin on thโ pterrible MOUNTAIN, built
By that uxorious WIND, whose heart though large,
Beguilโd by fair XANTHOUS PLANETESS, fell
To Compounds wet.
RODENT came next behind,
Whose annual sprawl in GRASSY PLAINS after
The JUNGLE cold-bloods lament their own fate
In mass extinction all a Summers day,
While smooth SERPENTINE from his native Rock
Slitherโd back to the Sea, supposโd with blood
Of RODENT yearly spreading: the Growth-tale
Infected AVIAN daughters with like heat,
Whose survival instincts in the sacred Perch
TYRANNO saw, when by the Feathers led
His eye survayโd the dark Evolution
Of wingรจd PTERODACTYL.
Next came one
Who crowโd in earnest, when the Climate Change
Maimโd his brute Image, unused arms lopt off
In his own Placenta, within yolked egg,
Where he sized down, and shamโd his Ancestors:
BIRD his Name, Sky Monster, upward flying
And downward Feeds: yet had his Nestle high
Rearโd in TREE BRANCHES, dreaded through the Webs
Of ARACHNIDS, in MOUNDS and ROTTING LOGS,
And INSECT HIVES and WORM-HILLS frontier bounds.
Him followโd LIZARD, whose delightful Seat
Was fair ARID SANDS, on the sunny Rocks
Of DESERT and OASIS, lucid streams.
He also against the house of REX was shrunk:
A Tyrant once he lost and gainโd a Niche,
SNAKE his limbless Conquerour, whom he hide from
In the crags to disparage and starve-out
For one of SCAVENGER mode, whereon to earn
His odious suppers, and adore the BUGS
Whom he had vanquisht.