Why just a single Zagabog exhausted Nature so;
His subjects rose from trilobites, the newest of the new,
To other bygone beasts that leapt and swam and crawled and flew;
But all obeyed the Zagabog,
The good primeval Zagabog.
Which they were right to do.
IV
From periods ante-Primary he dated, as we know,
And with the greatest interest observed that wondrous show
Of shells and fish, of monstrous newts, of dragons on the wing;