October 15, 2024
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Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’
Science in meter and verse
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Edited by Dava Sobel
And but it strikes! Shh—hear the mountains murmur?
Peripatetic prairies slowly creep
throughout the globe. There is no such thing as a terra firma.
Is that so terra-ble? We’ll must preserve
producing new and up to date editions
of each atlas. However it’s nobody’s fault
that continents collide, or cut up in fissions.
On groaning sleds of granite and basalt,
coastlines advance on trans-oceanic missions
like runners on this planet’s most boring race
(although gradual, they by no means fail to cowl floor)
and in some way, nonetheless, their clip exceeds the tempo
a cussed tutorial comes round
to proof, and adjustments his positions.
Writer’s be aware: Wegener was an early proponent of continental drift—a concept initially met with resistance.
