Encomium Murchisonaum
Who first surveyed the Russian states?
And made the great Azoic dates?
And worked the Scandinavian states?
Sir Roderick
Who calculated nature’s shocks?
And proved the low Silurian rock
Detritus of more ancient flocks?
Sir Roderick
Who knows of what all rocks consist?
And sees his way where all is mist
About the metamorphic schist?
Sir Roderick
Who draws distinctions clear and nice
Between the old and new gneiss?
And talks no nonsense about ice.
Sir Roderick
Let others then, their stand maintain,
Work all for glory, nought for gain,
And each finds faults, but none complain.
Sir Roderick
Let Sedgwick say how things began,
Defend the old creation plan,
And smash the new one, if he can.
Sir Roderick
Let Buckland set the land to rights,
Find meat and peas, and starch in blights,
And future food in coprolites.
Sir Roderick
Let Agassiz appreciate tails,
And like the virgin old the scales,
And Owen draw the teeth of whales.
Sir Roderick
Take Thou thy orders hard to spell,
And titles more then man can spell.
I wish all such were earned so well.
Sir Roderick
Mary Anning (Lyme Regis, Reino Unido, 21 de mayo de 1799 – 1847) . Paleontóloga.
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