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There was once a little animal,
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No bigger than a fox,
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And on five toes he scampered
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Over Tertiary rocks.
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They called him Eohippus,
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And they called him very small,
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And they thought him of no value --
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When they thought of him at all;
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For the lumpish old Dinoceras
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And Coryphodon so slow
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Were the heavy aristocracy
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In days of long ago.
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Said the little Eohippus,
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“I am going to be a horse!
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And on my middle finger-nails
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To run my earthly course!
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I’m going to have a flowing tail!
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I’m going to have a mane!
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I’m going to stand fourteen hands high
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On the psychozoic plain!”
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The Coryphodon was horrified,
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The Dinoceras was shocked;
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And they chased young Eohippus,
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But he skipped away and mocked.
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Then they laughed enormous laughter,
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And they groaned enormous groans.
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And they bade young Eohippus
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Go view his father’s bones.
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Said they, “You always were as small
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And mean as now we see,
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And that’s conclusive evidence
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That you’re always going to be.
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What! Be a great, tall, handsome beast,
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With hoofs to gallop on?
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Why! You’d have to change your nature!
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Said the Loxolophodon.
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They considered him disposed of,
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And retired with gait serene;
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That was the way they argued
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In the early Eocene.
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