Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-04-14

S~~'
Mindless we lived, and mindless we loved,
And mindless at last we died
And deep in rift of Caradoc drift,
We slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in the lathe of time
The hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the womb of
And crept into light again.
We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed
And drab dead mans hand
We eoied at ease meath the dripping trees,
Or trailed through the mud and sand
Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed fee
Writing language dumb,
With never spark in the empty dark
To hint of life to come
Yet happy we lived, and happy we loved,
And happy we died once more:
Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold
OF Neocomian shore
The Aeons came, and the Aeons fed
And the sleep that wrapped us fast
Was rven away in a newer day,
And the night of death was past
When light and swift through the jungle trees,
We swung in our airy flights,
Or breathed in the balm of the fronded palm.
In the hush of the mooness nights
And OH what beautiful years were these
When our hearts chung each 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 circle strange,
And breath by breath, and death by death
We followed the chain of change
TIL there came time in the law of life
When DER the nursing sod,
The shadows broke, and the soul awoke
In strange dim dream of God.
| was thewed like an Auroch BULL
And tusked like the great Cave Bear;
And you, my sweet, from head to feet.
Were gowned in your glorious hair.
Deep in the gloom of fireess cave,
When the night fell Ger the plain
And the moon hung red Ger the river bed,
We mombled the bones of the slain.
faxed a flint to cutting edge
And shaped it with british craft:
broke shank from the woodland dank,
And fitted it, head and haft
Then hid me close by the reedy tarn,
Where the Mammoth came to drink:
Through Drawn and bone l drave the stone.
And slew him upon the brink
Loud | howled through the moonlit wastes.
Loud answered our kith and kin:
from west and east to the crimson feast,
The clan came trooping in
Ger joint and gristle, and padded hoof,
We fought, and clawed, and tore,
And cheek by jowl, with many growl,
We talked the marvel Ger.
| carved that fight on reindeer bone
With rude and hairy hand
| pictured his fall on the cavern wall
That men might understand
For we lived by blood and the right of might,
Ere human laws were drawn,
And the age of sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks were gone.
And that was million years ago.
In a time that no man knows,
Yet here tonight, in the mellow light
We sit at Demonicos;
Your eyes are deep the Devon springs;
Your hair is as dark as jet;
Your years are few, your life is new:
Your soul untried,-and yet
Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay
And on the searp of the Purbeck flags:
We have left our bones in the Bagshot stones
And deep in the Coraine crags
Our love is old. life is old,
And death shall come amain.
Should 1t come today what man may say
We shall not meet again.
God wrought our souls from the Tremadoc beds
And furnished them wings to fly;
He sowed our spawn in the Worlds dim dawn.
And know that II shall not die,
Though cities have sprung above the graves
Where the erook-boned men made war.
And the ox-wain creaks DER the buried caves.
Where the mummied Mammoths are.
Then as We finger at luncheon here.
Ger many dainty dish;
Let US drink anew to the time when you
Were a tadpole. and was a fish