Page:The college beautiful, and other poems.djvu/39

Rh My gentle temper had been wrecked, That used to be so placid. I had a headache, the effect Of much carbonic acid. "My bones," I said, "from toil you can Find only one vacation; Before the coming Age of Man, Try solidification. "A modest shale or argillyte Would make a pleasing closet, Or in a sober syenite Your relics I'11 deposit." "Not so," says Fate; "you'll have to wait; I can't accept your datum. Geology prepares her late And most distressing stratum. "A future race shall seek your place, Your geologic station, And find your last imbedded trace In the examination."