The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-11
THE ORIGIN OF sPRcIEs-A NEW ssoNea

THE ORIGIN OF sPEcIEs-A NEW SONG
Have you heard OF the question the doctor
Whether ali living things from Menad hay
sprung?
This has lately been said, and it now shall b
4 sung,
Which nobody can deny.
Not one or two ages sufficea for the feat.
Il required few millions the change TO com
plete;
But now the things done, and it looks rattle
| neat,
Which nobody can deny.
The original Monad, our great-great-grandsir
10 little or nothing at first did aspire,
But at last to have offspring IL took desire
| Which nobody can deny.
This Monad becoming father or mother
BY budding or busting, produced such an
other:
And shortly there followed sister or brother
Which nobody can deny.
But Aonad no longer essignatesi them we'll
They're cluster OF fnoleenles now, or q cell
Which nobody can deny.
These beings s;9s increasing, grew buOyant witt
And each to Itself was beth husband ant
And at aTst, strange to say. nv ed withou
Which nobody can deny.
But such crowding together soon troublesome
And they thought division of labor wouIG
So their sexual system was parted in two.
Which nobody can deny.
Thus Plato supPssss4hat severed by fate,
Human halves run about, each In search Of II:
Never pleased Till they gain their original
state,
Which nobody can deny.
Excresences fast now were trying TO shoot;
Some put out q feeler, some put out q foot;
Some set up mouth, and some struck down 4
Which nobody can deny.
Some wishing to walk. manufactured hnb:
Some rigged cut a I'm, with purpose to
Some opened an eye, some remained dark and
dim,
Which nobody can deny.
See hydras and sponges and stzr-6shes breed,
And niee, nees, ann 1obsters in order succeed,
While lchthyosaurnses follow the lead,
Which nobody can deny.
From reptiles and fishes to birds we ascend,
And quadrupeds next their Dimensions eX-
Till we rise up to monkeys and men, where
We end. ~
Which nobody can deny.
Some creatures are bulky, some creatures are
small,
AS nature send food for few or for all;
And the weakest, we know ever go TO. the
Which nobody can deny. -
A deer with neck that is longer by half
Than the rest of its family, (try not to laugh)
BY stretching and stretching, becomes graf
Which nobody can deny. 10
A very tall pig, with o very long nose, -
Sends forth n proboscis quite DOWN 10 its toes;
And he by the name OF an elephant goes,
which nobody can deny.
The four-fOoted beast that we now call a
Held his hind legs so close that they grew to a
Which he uses for threshing the sea, like a
haIl,
Which nobody can deny. il.
Pouters, tumblers, and iantaiis are from The
same source, -
The racers and hack may be traced to one
horse; ri
So men were developed from monkeys, Of
course,
Which nobody can deny. 81
An ape, with pliable thumb and big brain,
When the GIFT Of the CAB he had managed to
gain, "a
AS the Lord of Creation established his reign,
Which nobody can deny.
nut III ShuIH aifalus IL we DO not take care,
A relapse to low life may our prospects i'm
pair; 81
so, OF beastly prOpensIties let us beware,
Which nobody can deny.
This lofty position our children may lose,
And reduced to all-fours, must narrow their
views;
Which would wholly unfit them for filling our
shoes, r..
Which nobody can deny.
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Their vertebrR next may be taken away, 81
When they sink to a shell fish, or spider, some
day, ia
Or the pitiful part of Polypus play,
Which nobody can deny.
Thus losing humAnity's nature and name,
And descending through various stages Of
shame, Ee
They'd return to the Monad from which we
all came, u
Which nobody can danV