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ed irom the Literary D1599“ _, V When you were a tadpole l was a

fish l ' . . '

1h Paleozoc true. fitnnd side by side on the ebbing _

- tide

We sprawled through the ooze and - .

slimv, nr-"shittered with many :1 caudal , _ .

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lsriau fen. My hear; was rife wi-th the love of _

life. I ' i

And 1 loved you. even then.

Ztlindless we lived, and mindless we loved. _

And mindless ut last we 111611.

And deep in a riit of the Curadoc

drift. _

We slumbered. side by side: ,

The world turned ou.in the lathe of time. ii .

The hot lands heaved amain,

Ti]! we caught our breath from the" _ I - b i‘ d th ..

Anrih-‘Zlh ihto eliife again. 7Z9 all/e‘ wtapper

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we were Amphibians, scaled nnd pyag/Ipafd/f/n tailed And drab as a dead man's hand. u ' l d t ' -th th d i - “e ff; eueﬂsfm” “i” _° r m’ 7Z0 regakr 01d Or trailed through the mud and hum (Igwp/pgf m“; s owin name i d hli d. lth -th - " a imdrrddemda Writing a language dumb, ~ With never a spark in the empty dark To hint at a life to come. Yet happy we lived, and happy \ve _ ‘ 7/16’ k€3uy‘ -l0vell, (If! h!’

And happy we died once more; ~

Our forms were rolled in the cling- ing mould

Oi a Neocomian shore.

The eons came, and the oonzyfled.

And the-sleep that \V|'ﬂ[“‘(iil us .

- as ' - fﬁe ﬁeaz/y Was rivir away in a newer day ' And the night of (leati: was past. mam/é? paper

Then light and swift through the jungle trees

We swung in our airy flights,

Or breathed in the ‘balms of the frounded palms

"“i‘?-'?l‘?“°’ ' to bring you the full richness

And oh.’ wha’ beautiful years wen-

Whetrileohth hearts clung each to I .

each. When life was filled and our sens- ‘*5 thrilled ‘

ln the first faint dawn oi speech

64 . g 99 Thus life by life, and love by ‘ love, _ We passed through the cycles strange. -

And breath by breath and death by ‘death. . . We followed the chain of chitmze.

Till ggirlirtese came a time in the law Manuractul-Qd

‘when over the nursing sod _

The shadows broke, and the soul

awoke In a strange, dim dream of 00d.

I was thawed like an Auroch bull And tasked like the great Cave Bear,

For we lived by blood and the Your hair as dark as jet. ’ may say Where the mummied Mammoth And you’ my ‘ween from hm“! m Your years are few, your lifz is We shall not live again? are ‘eat’ right of might, new, . » were grown“ h‘ 7°“ 5mm)“ Ere human laws were drawn. Your soul untried and yet. God wrought our souls from the Then as we linger at luncheon 1m"; And the Age of Sin did not yet Trema doc beds hem, Deep In “'9 51mm of a ‘M31955 begin Our trail ‘is on the Kimmsridge And furnished them wings to fly, O‘er many a dainty dish, cave’ a Pill our brutish tusks were gone. clay He. sowed our spawn in the world's LB! 0B drink anew t0 the lime when {he "'5'"- re“ d" m“ mm‘ And tha scarp of the Purbeck dim dawn i when you bed’ ' That was a million years ago ﬂagg, And I know that it shall not dieﬂwﬂre IPIMIPOIB- and l ﬂ fish- we nlumbled the Dom“ °r m“ in a land that no man knows, We have left our bones in the Though cities have sprung above '—-—¢°¢——* “hi”: And now tonight, Ill the mellow Bagshot stones /the graves A "H0 cage won't feed the bird. ' light. And deep in the Coraline crags: Where the crork-boned men made I flaked a flint of a cutting 6639 We sit at Delmoncitfs; _ Our love is old, our lives are old. war; Your Father knoweth what And shaped it with brutish craft, you, eyes are as dgep as the And death shall come again; And the ox-waia creeks o'er the things ye have need of before ye l broke a shank from the wood- Devon 59,1135, Should it come today, what man buried caves ask him.‘ '

land dank And fitted it. head and haft; i4 Then I hid me close to the ready

tarn ' Where the Mammoth came to drink Through brawn and bone l drove the stone

And slew him upon the bdink.

Loud l howled through the moon‘ lit wastes

And called on my kith and kin,

From west nnd east to the crimson feastw

The clan came trooping in;

0'01‘ 10?! nnd gristle and padded

We fought. and clawed. and tore. And check by Jowl, with many a

growl. We talked the marvel o'er.

I carved that fight on a iolndeer bone

With a rude and hairy hand, 1 I ""1 d” ‘ ‘ ' ' ' l _' l mogul?” M. u" on m’ “Wm Ph t ph shown the dipping of the colon as the Royal coach bearing their Mnieatien. the King and Queen of Enginnd- P!!!“ w: o ogra I -

That men might understand. _

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