Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-10
THE DESCENT OF MAN.
DrLIvERsD BnFoRE THE DoDGEFILLE LITERARY AsseoIi
Is ZION, DEC s1sr, 1872, By MRS MARY RAssEE-

We've work ed cur way npWaFa 70 d higher grace,
In seeking happiness; with all our learning
We've found it not, and now what has it paid
To bs instructed to keen discerning
of ali cur niseryy 'Tis wrong too burningl
Darwin, since life is like short hvedtaper,
Why wasn't we left by fate to risk and eaper
Must we be cultivated, keep progressing on p
Looking upon the thing with grave reflection,
I think, as far as Dee3fui We haze gone,
BY this most pstent art they call selection,
which ofterest means to modest worth rejection
And place and wealth to those who steal the most
And have least conscience in the mighty host
knowledge brings trouble; twas SO from the first,
, And 1 don, t know, but if we keep growing
Wiser, ven bs SO wretehed, SO aceursed,
That on balloons we'H even be bestowing
/ Chances of envy as they frsk unk moving.
Are they not better, happier far than WEI.
From most our cares, at least, they now free.
Tell us, and you have then conferred favor,
Where is your fine spul theory going to lead us
Has your science given to us-a Savior
That when we die shall have the power to heed US
And have you got something science to feed US
For what does it matter when this life is DER
Whether men or monkeys if we live no more?
To know how ones blood is running through hi
veins,
Why should he care one single particle,
If naught, at lif0's sad close on earth, remains2
But lay it down, labeled apseless article.
What worth the knowledge that prolongs its flow,
When death annihilates all we feel or knowi
Life may go on, a life evolved from death
What matters it, if it goes back forever,
Whether from or monkey comes our brsath2
If our existence ceases at our death, never
Can life atone for all the ties we saver.
Can know ledge bless us, for 1t has no goal,
Nor science benefit that leaves no sonl.
But digress, have got quite off the track,
For what 1 meant to show when first started,
Was how the apes lived and must so back,
Nor leave my heroes all quite broken-heartsd.
Twas myriads Of ages 'ert babboons had parted
With that appendage that they left behind
When first they took their ranks amongst mankind
At least, that's my theory, and tbs quite good
AS any other, till proved unrelying.
But to my story, Once in large wood;
An ape tribe, swinging from tree, were trying
To cross river by gort Of aying
Suspension bridge an ingenious plan,
But made of iron by their descendant man.
But accidents will happen everywhere,
And this bridges centre, tied by an old fellow
Rather rheumatic, gave away spite their care,
And plunged full half the tribe into the river
Some few emerged to chatter and to SILVER;
The central arch seen, alas no more,
And but the abutment ever reached the shore.
They held meeting straightway on the spot,
And there and then reviewed the situation.
Without dissent decided it not
The bridges fault, some wrong articulation
In him who gave the orders "Our salvation
Depends upon palmer form of speech.
Wen set our wisest ones to find and teachl
And since our orator and arch is gone,
Some one to take his honored place we'll seek vel
The scheme was carried out, and ere the dawn
or the next age not one but what could speak well
Aud changed the name their tribe bore. as a sc
qnel,
Calling it Now, really, I'm not mockiug,
But simply state how monkeys got to talkings
think too, that the news they had to tall ;,
Moved them, along to help the propagation
The future spirit gan to rise and sRell-
That tale they would unfold to all the nation.
Thus step higher they took thGir station,
Mankind, upon this art SO long improving
Can make ithout the trrth tale moving.
Bnt as such seegdent had happened, these,
b. CONSULTATION, had grown discerning,
And fol ed them RATS made from the fallen trees.
And built them hus, the fruit of wider learning
And still were happy till some proud ones spurn
ing -,
The badge that to the other tribes allied them,
Decided to wear clothes and try to hide them.
And having kuts, they had less need of trees,
For climbing feats they showed still less affection
And left the art to youngsters, by degrees,
fill their thad hand grew useless by rejection
OF an old art, though once wise selection,
And dropped as useless as some tale, or song,
That tires, Qke this perehanoe,) when drawn tc
long. a@
Still they kept on learning by slow degrees,
Until they grew at last, vast improvement;
While stranger tribes still chateripg in the trees,
Looked GOWN Win eyS u1On tuo moNc-
.ment. "a
Watching, yet running still in the old grove,
meant, p.
In earnest, if they found the thing was better
Than the old Ifs, to follow to the letter
But pride came in ma held unbounded sway,
And tho poor watchers turned away dis gu sted;
f or envy tore the OLD sweet ties away,
Until at last scarce one there could be trus ted
And their affairs were more by power adjusted
Than love, we'll let thu tribe alone, De-. ea.
Twont pay they chartered with full many al grean
And thus I've told what Darwin does not name,
No doubt because in haste twas quite forgotten
How one tribe grew to opulence and fame,
The others kept the woods, happier lot in
Sooth than to be cramped, confined and taught in
DIstastefql things. The proof, boys undesigning
Exhibit an inherent love for climbing.
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