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There was once a little animal, / No bigger than a fox, / And on five toes he scampered / Over Tertiary rocks. / They called him Eohippus, / And they called him very small, / And they thought him of no value- / When they thought of him at all; / For the lumpish old Dinoceras / And Coryphodon so slow / Were the heavy aristocracy / In days of long ago.
Said the little Eohippus, / "I am going to be a horse! / And on my middle finger-nails / To run my earthly course! / I'm going to have a flowing tail! / I'm going to have a mane! / I'm going to stand fourteen hands high / On the psychozoic plain!"