The Dinosaur Bones by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

 

The Dinosaur Bones

  by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

The dinosaur bones are dusted every day.
The cards tell how old we guess the dinosaur bones are.
Here a head was seven feet long, horns with a hell of a ram,
Humping the humps of the Montana mountains.

 

The respectable school children
Chatter at the heels of their teacher who explains.
The tourists and wonder hunters come with their parasols
And catalogues and arrangements to do the museum
In an hour or two hours.

 

The dinosaur bones
are dusted
every day