Quite a feat skittering at the feet of dinosaurs,
Shrew–like mammal
Fleet ;
First wronged as reptilian,
But diphyodontly
Mammalian,

A distinction .

Mammalian lore :
Scattering eggs /
Feeding on dregs—

Triumphant !
Short the Permian / Triassic extinction .

*[ WSB ]_.