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We have another poem out the stacks of past ESCONI newsletters.  This one is from January 1960.  It’s called “A Trilobite Tale” and was submitted by Edward T Tonray.

A Trilobite Tale

Hark to the plight of the Trilobite
  That roamed the Silurian waters.
    What caused his fright was the Eurypterid’s bite,
      That had taken his sons and daughters.

They met the thief ‘neath a crinoid sheaf
  Under the breakers foam.
    They came to grief on the coral reef
      That long has been their home.

The Trilobite stung cause he lost his young
  Dashed with a wild lunge
    But his foe sprung and his teeth stung
      As he caught him in full plunge.

Now this ocean bug who’d been so smug
  As through the sea he’d cruise
    Died like a mug in the Euryperid’s hug
      There in the primordial ooze.

The Cephalopod had a shell to ward
  Off the mean Eurypterid.
    But the Gastropod not so strongly shod
      Just slithered away and hid.

The Eurypterids grew in numbers too,
  And they were big and mean.
    And the Trilobite gave up the fight
      And soon vanished from the scene.

                           By Edward T. Tonry