Here is some nice (and sometimes silly) poetry or prose about vertebrates...
		It's a long way from Amphioxus
		The Axolotl and the Ammocoete (Garstang, 1966)
		The Ancestry of Vertebrates (Garstang, 1966)
		The Tree Toads (Anonymous, 1988)
		Oikopleura, Jelly-builder (Garstang, 1966)
		Man and the ascidian -- a morality (Andrew Lang)
		Excerpt from "Handbook of Turtles" (Archie Carr, 1952)
		Excerpt from "Windward Road" (Archie Carr)
		Excerpt from "Snakes: the evolution of mystery in nature" (Greene, 1997)

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