, 1880-03-07
THE EVOLUTIONARY M0LECULE.

l. TYFpALL~DARwIE1C. .1fADR1GAL.
tSut0 before the Society for. tho Diffusion Of
Scientific Kaooledge-]
i could tale unfold.
When form was entirely molecular,
!, 8 part uf q nebulH world.
Existed In nowhere particular;
: 4 Is no 10 star YET yet hung ID na tie ethereal,
And OF course there existed no place
When there YVES not to make it material.
cHoHps oK sc1ENTls4s tn recognition Of the1o0ic
WhacE folI oil addady.
By-and-by. from the darkness profound,
By which mean gathered around,
Attracted to me their affinity.
Each a cosmos was then. and possessed
OF world aii the germnal qualities,
But 10 small none would ever hare guessed
That each star would e'er grow to the ball It Is.
their nbitty to guess Or discover anyhiT.g):
Il rumtity tumtity ty,
Ri tooral il coral lyaddady.
For one little mite 'u1ongst the rest
trilled In manner irrational,
And felt in my moIecutic breAst
a stirring magnetic and passtoua4:
As it felt the like toward me, too,
We joined In a mystical unity,
Till, by evolution We grew
To a perfect atomic community.
eus,v one to tle reasonahie1ess of nis statenen:
Tumttty r1lmtfty tum.
Toorai lyooral Iynddady.
And 50 We evolved and revoived
In the realms Of the uttermost boreal.
From Rnscs to grasses resolved,
From them into form tnfusoriai:
Once senttent we rapidly grew
To the moliusc stnte, then to the saur1a1s
From that,-but, between me and you,
I'd best skip some links, least bore ye all.
CHORUS or SCIENTISTS totven NTH much hi1arttv,
as nantfesting pleasure at hearing h's>:
Tiddy tt umpty adaday.
So IN come to that state where @ our shape
Was that Of the order called Simlan,
To which belong monkey and ape 4
And man, pide thesis Dnrwinlan.
Oh. that was life full of case,
Then we slept nice and snug on the trees
Each slung By a link Of his narrative.
CnoRus OF SCIENTISTS ta platntive lullaby, con-
ind bouohs and b,sczcs balsam- -{dde7al:
RI chIcketty wicketty ho!
Wicketty chicketty adaday.
But one day-O most sorrowful day!-
Then was tho gaycst ia A1onkeydom-
caaEht Ses carrcd Haz s e. e
Neither tail was he blest with, nor hair,
Except on the top Of hts occiput,
And he only Il trifle had there, ..-..
Der the rest Of his corpus some frocks he put.
| CuoRCs OF SCIENTISTS tsuggestiue Of horror and
| tpo,1dcr at the appearance Of the monster:
| Ho! csicketty licketty 0!
Licketty cricketty adaday.
Most pitfful then was my lot:
| Condemned to the yilest OF slavery,
Clad fu mo,intebank garments and taught
Tricks pregnant with cunning and knavery;
| For my tyrant> his living to earn,
Exhibited me to tho folk about
! With an organ, and had to learn
| The antics and tricks just spoke about
CHORUS or SCIENTISTS Nach h1pn1osely consntser-
] All! rocketty crocketty whock,
| Crocketty rocketty adnday.
| 'Tis said what is bred in the bone
VIII never, no never, come out again.
| And the truth Of the ndagc ta shown
| In myself, now once more Tn about again;
| For-I tell you this under the rose
My present hfgh-stented morality
To my former transition state owes
| Its sweetness and light and vitality.
| CHORUS or SCIENTISTS ts1o,cinQ ho.D Science cdr
tTutG eptryhtnp IN epeTy possible direction, ono
| Drouc the eternal fitness Of things, aud the tEtd-
| fionship of-of-inatters 1ererun0:
! TIL ddy tumliddy Il o.
| Ri toorally adady.
I Thus clearly and fully I've traced
| Through the mysticai depths Of cosmology,
| With evOlvings occult interlnced,
| Tho line Of my true gene0logy:
| Till now, rich in honprs and pelf,
| And famous for culture and ptetY,
| Tn boss of an organ myself,
| And grind for the choicest society.
| CHORUS OF SCIENTISTS tuccompanted BY q ctrcn-
| lar nouensent Of the right hand aud aTna):
| ri tuornly oornly him.
Toorulyoorally llyadaday.