Evening journal., 1914-04-28
REVOLUTION"
BY LangdOn Smith.

Or skittered with many caudal hip
Through the depths Of the Cam
brian fen,
Ny heart was rife with the JOY OF life,
For I loved you oven then.
Mindless we lived and mindless we
loved,
And mindless at last we died;
And deep in the rift of the Caradoc
drift
We slumbered side by side.
The world turned on in the lathe Of
time,
The hot lands heaved amaim
Till we caught our breath from the
womb of death,
And crept into light again.
We were Amphibians, scaled and
tailed
And drab as a dead mans hand;
We colled at ease meath the dripping
trees,
Or trailed through the mud and
sand,
Croaking and blind, with our three
clawed feet,
Writing a language dumb,
With never a spark in the empty
dark
To hint at a life to come.
Yet happy We lived and happy we
And happy we died once more;
Our forms were rolled in the clinging
mould
OF a Neocomian shore.
The cons came and the cons fled.
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 jun
gle trees
We swung I'm our airy flights,
Or breathed in the balms of the
frOnded palms
In the hush Of the mOonless nights.
And OH what beautiful years were
these.
When our hearts clung 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 cy-.e
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
awoke
In a strange dim dream Of God.
l 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 a fireless cave,
When the night fell over the plain.
And the moon hung DER the river
bed,
We mumbled the bones of the slain
l flaked a flint to a cutting edge,
And shaped il with british craft:
broke a shank from the woodland
dank,
And fitted It, head and haft.
Then I hid me close to the reedy tarr
When the mammoth came to drink
Through brawn and bone / drave the
stone,
And slew him upon the brink.
Loud howled through the moonlit
wastes,
Loud answered our kith and kin,
From west to 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 DER.
I carved that fight on a reindeer bon
With rude and hairy hand,
I pictured his fall on the cavern wal
That men might understand.
For we lived by blood, and the righ
OF might.
Ere human laws were drawn.
And the age of sin did not begin
Till our brutal tusks we're gone.
And that was a million years ago,
In a time that no man knowss
Yet here tonight, in the mellow ligh
We sit at Delmonico's;
Your eyes are deep as the Devo
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 ella,
And the scarp of the Purbeck flag
We have left our homes in the BaG
shot stones.
And deep in the Coraline crags,
Our love is old, our lives are old.
And death shall come amain;
Should Il come today, what man ma
say,
We shall not live again.
Then as we linger at luncheon here
Der many dainty dish,
Let us drink anew to the time who
you
Were a tadpole and a fish.
The last OF the unmounted gems Z