Whiffenfossil.

Listening to the Jo Stafford holiday album, specifically "The Whiffenpoof Song." I have a birthday coming up. These words register:
We will serenade our Louie while life and voice shall last
Then we'll pass and be forgotten with the rest.
Then I notice a fish fossil in the marble.


The world will little note nor long remember what I did here, but that fossil is another thing entirely.