For the ground was with heaps of huge muscle-shells strewn,
And strange fish were marked in the clay.
Here an ichthyosaurus stood out from the wall,
There monsters ne’er told of in story,
Whilst hard by the Nix in the waterfall
Sang wildly the days of their glory.
Here bones of the mammoth and mastodon,
And serpents with wings and with claws;
The elephant’s tusks from the burning zone
Are small to the teeth in their jaws.