VIII
More ages passed, more monsters passed, and others took their place;
The Zagabog he still endured from endless race to race;
Till Toxodons and Mammoths came, with Sloths of stature grand,
Whose small relations still exist in many a distant land.
Of course an old-time Zagabog,
A right down Early Zagabog,
Such moderns could not stand.
IX
But still, with all the wisdom of a hundred million years,