This is Throwback Thursday #42. 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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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
