A GEOLOGICAL MADRIGAL.
AFTER HERRICK.
Ihave found out a gift for my fair;
I know where the fossils abound,
Where the foot-prints of Aves declare
The birds that once walked on the ground;
O, come, and—in technical speech—
We'll walk this Devonian shore,
Or on some Silurian beach
We'll wander, my love, evermore.
I will show thee the sinuous track
By the slow-moving annelid made,
Or the Trilobite that, further back,
