This is Throwback Thursday #36. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to [email protected]. Thanks!
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Today we have another poem from the 1950s. This one is by B.J. Babbitt from January 1952. He was the editor of the Earth Science News (our newsletter) in 1952.
Fossil in the Crannied Wall
(with apologies to the lord - Tennyson that is)
O fossil in the crannied wall
I chip you from the cranny --
No life snuffed out to slake the thirst
Of curiosity, Or knowledge of the creation's dawn
So steeped in mystery.
Fear not -- your likeness did not fall
To vandals' violation
Your replica has now become
A point of adoration
Beheld with reverence and awe-
No thought of desecration.
Rest on in peace, my sphinx-like friend--
Your everlasting stature
Has spanned the years if ageless time,
Transcendent through the future--
Long after Man and all that's his
Have been returned to Nature.
-- B.J Babbitt
