The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-01
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best of its kind Interest in it is re.
vived now because Of It's authors re
cent death in Brooklyn. The poem in
its entirety is as follows.
When YOU were Tadpole and was
Ia FislltG tgf
IN the paleozoic time.
And side 10y side on the ebbiDg tide
We spvawled through the ooze and
slime,
or skittered with many a caudal flip
Through tae depths OF the Cam.
brian fen
Ny heart was rife with the ioy of life
For loved you, even ,hen
Mindless We lived and mindless we
And mindless at last we lied;
And deep in a riit Of the Caradoc
drift.
We sumbeTed siGe by side.
The world turned on in the lathe Of
time.
The hot lands heayed amain,
TIN we caught our breath from the
womb oi death,
And crept into light again
We were Amphibians, scaled and tail
ed,
And drab as dead mans hand;
We coiled at ease meath the dripping
trees,
Or trailed through the mud and
sand,
croaking halI-bnnd, with our three.
elawed feet
Writing language dumb.
With never a spark IN the empty dark
To hint at a life to come.
Yet happy we lived, and happy we
loved.
And happy we died once more:
Our forms We're rolled iu the cling
ing mod
OF Neocomain shore.
The cons came and the cons fed,
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was riven away in a newer day
And the night of death was past.
Then light and swift through the
jungle trees
We swung in our airy flights.
Or breathed in the balms of the from.
ded palms,
In the hush Of the mooniess nights
And OH what beautiful years were
these,
When our hearts chung eacn TO each;
When life was filled, and our senses
thrilled
In the first faint dawn of speech.
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 change,
TIL there came a time in the law OF
lie
When over the nuns Ne sod
The shadows broke, and the soul
awoke
In strange, dim dream Of God
was thewed like an Auroch bull.
And tusked ike the great Cave
Bear
And you, my sweet, from head to feet
Were gowned in your glorious hair,
Deep in the gloom of a freless cave
Wnen the night fell cr the plain,
And the moon hung red Ger the river
bed.
We mumbled the bones of the slain
faxed a flint to a cutting edge.
And shaped It with british craft.
! broke a shank from the WOODLAND
danE,
And fitted It, head and haft.
i Then | hid me close TO the reedy tarn
Where the Mammoth came t'
Through Drawn and bone ] drove tn,
stone,
| And slew him upon the brink
Loud howled through the moonli
wastes
Loud answered our hth and kin
From west and east TO the crimson
least
The elan came trooping In,
Ger joint and grlstle and padded hoo
We fought and clawed and tore
And cheek by lowl. with many a grow
We talked tne marvel DER.
carved that 6gat on a reindeer bon
With rude and hairy hand.
& pictured his fall on the cavern wa
That men might understand.
For we lived by blood, and the righ
OF might
Ere human -aws were drawn,
And the Age of Sin did NOT begin
Til our bruta: tusks were gone.
And that was million years ago,
In a time that no man knows:
Yet here tonight in the mellow ligh
We SIT at Delmonico's
Your eyes are deep as the DeyO
springs,
Your hair Is as dark as jet;
Your years are few. your life is new
Your soul untsied and yet
Onr trial is on the Kimmeridge ella.
And the scrap of the Purbeck flag
We have left our bones in the BagshC
stOnes
And deep In the Corailne crags;
Our love is odd, our lives are old.
And death shall come amain.
Should It come to-day, what man ma
say
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