. The select works of Bret Hartte in prose and poetry. may recognise the ThorOf the vision that I saw,—Freed from legendary glamour,See the real magicians hammer. TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL % Geological 3ttrtuc66. O PEAK, 0 man, less recent! Fragmentary fossil 1 ^ Primal pioneer of pliocene formation, Hid in lowest drifts below the earliest stratum Of volcanic tufa ! i: Older than the beasts, the oldest Palseotherium $Older than the trees, the oldest Cryptogami ;Older than the hills, those infantile eruptionsOf earths epidermis! Eo—Mio—Plio—whatsoeer the cene wasThat those vacant sockets filled wit

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. The select works of Bret Hartte in prose and poetry. may recognise the ThorOf the vision that I saw,—Freed from legendary glamour,See the real magicians hammer. TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL % Geological 3ttrtuc66. O PEAK, 0 man, less recent! Fragmentary fossil 1 ^ Primal pioneer of pliocene formation, Hid in lowest drifts below the earliest stratum Of volcanic tufa ! i: Older than the beasts, the oldest Palseotherium $Older than the trees, the oldest Cryptogami ;Older than the hills, those infantile eruptionsOf earths epidermis! Eo—Mio—Plio—whatsoeer the cene wasThat those vacant sockets filled with awe and wonder,—Whether shores Devonian or Silurian beaches,—Tell us thy strange story ! Or has the professor slightly antedatedBy some thousand years thy advent on this planet,Giving thee an air thats somewhat better fittedFor cold-blooded creatures 1 u Wert thou true spectator of that mighty forestWhen above thy head the stately SigillariaPteared its columned trunks in that remote and distantCarboniferous epoch ? 10 THE PLIOCEN

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