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

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| And side by side with the ebbing tide
We sprawled through ooEe and
| slime, 49, e.z.
Or skittered with many q candal flip
Through the depths Of the Cambrian
fen. - IL. &
NV heart was ripe with the JOY Of life.
For ] loved you even then.
Mindless we lived and mindless we
loved, s. =
And mindless at last we died;
And deep in the rift Of the Carodoc
drift - -.
| We slum5ered side by side.
The world turned on In the lathe OF
| time, 10 r.. go
] The hot lands heayed au1ain, !
Till we caught our breath from the
womb of death. =
And crept into light again. 8
We were amphibians. scaled and
I tailed, =
And drab as dead mans hand;
We coiled at ease meath the dripping
trees.
. Or trailed through the mud and
L.. sand. 4 IT,.
Cracking and blind with our three
/ clawed feet.
Writing language dumb,
With never o 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.
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,
Tor breathed In the balms Of the frondt
ed palms
In the hush Of the moonless nights.
And OF what beautiful years were
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 cycles
strange ~,
And breath by breath and death by
death,
We followed the chain of change,
Till there came a time in the law OF
life
When over the nursing sod
The shadows broke and the soul
In 4 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 q fireless cave,
When tho night felf over the plain.
And the moon hung red DER the river
bed,
We mumbled the bones Of the slain.
| flaked flint to a cutting edge,
i And shaped 1t with british craft.
u broke a shang from the woodland
dank,
| And fitted it, head and haft.
!, Then 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 l howled through the moonlit
| wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin.
From west and east to the crimson
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 growb
We talked the marvel Ger.
carved that fight on reindeer bone,
| With rude and hairy hand,
:, pictured his fall on the cayery wall
That men might understand,
For we lived by blood and right Of
s. might,
Fer human laws were drawn,
And the age of sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks were gone.
* D. = r. =
And that was a million years ago.
In q time that no man knows;
/ Yet here tonight, in q mellow light, q
We sit at Delmonico's;
Your eyes are deep as the Devon
springs, 49, =
Your hair Is as dark as jet,
Your years are few, your life is new,
Your soul untrfed, and yet .-.' - r.,
Our trail is on the Kimmerridge clay,
| And the scarp Of the Purbeck flags
We have left our bones in the bag.
shot stones,
And deep in the Caroline crags;
Our love is old, and our lives are old,
And death shall come amain:
Should it come today, what man may