Plenty of poets wrote them, but the most famous of all is John Milton's  Lycidas . Like all typical pastoral elegies, Milton mourns the loss of his best bud (who died in a shipwreck). But he also compares him to a shepherd and describes the ways in which nature mourns his loss, too.
The Banff longnose dace, a small minnow, was recently declared extinct. It failed to compete with the guppies, swordtails, sailfin mollies and other tropical fish that had been released in the warm marsh below the famous hot springs by tourists and national park officials.
Recent Examples of dace from the Web Federal wildlife officials have proposed removing federal protections for the Foskett speckled dace, which is found only in Lake County. â andrew theen, OregonLive.com, Feds propose removing protections for rare Oregon fish listed under Endangered Species Act, 3 Jan. 2018