Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-20
EVOLUTION.

Il = =E
| In the PaIeozoic time,
And side by side with the ebbtng tide
We SPRAYED through oose and
| slime,
Or skittered with many q caadal Zip
Through the depths Of the Cambrian
fen.
Ny heart was ripe with the Joy Of life.
For loved you even then.
Mindless we lived and mindless We
loved,
And mindless at last We died;
And deep in the rift OF the Carodoc
| drift
I We slumbered side by side.
, The world turned on in the lathe OF
| time.
| The hot lands heaved amain.
Till we caught onr breath from the
! womb of death.
/ And crept into light again.
We we're amphibians. scaled and
! tailed.
| And drab as dead mans hand:
I'VE coiled at ease meath the dripping
trees.
=, Or trailed through the mud and
sand.
, Cracking and blind with our three
clawed feet,
Writing a language dumb,
With never spark In the empty dark
To hint at life to come.
Yet happy We lived and happy We
loved,
And happy We died once more;
Our form was rolled In the singing
mold
OF Neocomian shore
The aeons came and the aeons fled.
1 And the sleep that wrapped Us fast,
Was riyen 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 frord.
ed paIms
In the hush of the moonless nights.
And o. what beautiful years we're
these
When our hearts chung each to
each;
When our life was filled and our
senses thrilled
In the first faint dawn OF speech.
Thus, live by life. and love by love.
We passed through the cycias
strange,
Z And breath by breath and death by
death, 4
We followed the chain Of change.
Till there came time in the law Of
When over the nursing sod
: The shadows broke and the soul
In q strange, dim dream Of God.
! And tusked like the great cave bear:
And you, my sweet, from, head to feet,
Were guWned IN your glorious hair,
Deep In the gloom 0f q flreless cave,
When the night fell over the plain.
And the moon hung red Ger the river
bed,
We mumbled the bones Of the slain.
I faxed flint to a cutting edge.
/ And shaped It with british craft.
II broke q shang from the woodland
dank,
And fitted it, head and haft.
Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn
Where the mammoth came to drink.
Through Drawn and bone ] drove the
/ stone,
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud howled through the moonlit
i wastes,
] Loud answered our hth and kin.
From west and east to the crimson
i feast
i The clan came trooping In.
Ger joint and gristle and padded hoof,
: We fought and clawed an tore,
And cheek by jowl. with many growl,
i We talked the marvel DER.
carved that fight on reindeer bone,
! With rude and hairy hand,
pictured his fall on the cavery wall
/ That men might understand,
For we lived by blood and right Of
might,
Fer 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 time that no man knows;
/ Yet here tonight, in a mellow light,
| We sit at Delmonico's; 50
Your eyes are deep as 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 Kimmerridge clay,
I And the scarp of the Purbeck flags
We have left our bones in the bag.
| shot stones, 49,"
! :. And deep in the Caroline crags;
Our love is old, and our lives are old,
! And death shall come amain:
Should 1t come today, what man may
[ say @=.et.. '''