The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-10-13
Thursday, October 10, 1927 tn
THE ELDER DARWIN
THE POKAN WOMAN
Fourth Part)

Fourth ParD
Darwin speaks of the sustaining character Nature:
'Shrined in the midst majestic Nature stands,
Extends DER Earth and her hundred hands;
Tower upon tower her beamy forehead crests
And births unnumbered milk her hundred breasts
Drawn round her brows a lucid veil depends,
Ger her line waist the purified wool descends
Her stately limbs the gathered folds surround
And spread their golden seyage the grounds
Young Spring, with winged zephyr
The queen OF Beauty to the bossomed meads.*'
Priestess of Nature! while with pous
Thy yotary bends, the mystic veil withdraw
Charm after charm succession bright display,
And give the Goddess to adoring day
So kneeing realms shall own the Power divine
And heaven and earth pour incense her shrine"
clearly trace thoughts of the HOW of creation:
First if you can celestial Guide! disclose
From what fair fountain mortal life arose,
Whence the fine nerve to move and feel assigned,
Contractile fibre, and ETHEREAL mind
How Love and sympathy the bosom warm,
Allure with pleasure and with pain alarm.
With scft affections weave the social plan,
And charm the Listening savage into
GOD THE FIRST CAUSE! in this terrene abode
Young Nature lisps, she is the child of God.
From embryon births her clangefu improve
Grow as they live and strengthen as they move
Ere Time began from flashing Chaos hurled
Rose the bright spheres which form the crcng world
Earths from each sun with quick explosions burst,
And second planets issued from the first
Then, whilst the sea- ut Their coeval birth,
Surge involved the shoreless earth;
Nursed by warm sunbeams in primeva caves
Organic life began beneath the
First Heat from chemic dissolution springs
And gives to matter its eccentric wings;
Melts into lymph kindles gas
Attraction next earth air subsidies
The ponderous the light divides,
Approaching parts with quick embrace combines
Swels into spheres and lenghens into lines.
Last, fine gOads the gluttOn- threads excite,
Cords grappe cords, and webs with webs unite;
And quick Contraction with ETHEREAL flame
Lights into life the fibre woven frame.
In earth, sea, air, around, below, above,
Lifes subtle wool in Natures loom is wove;
Points glued to points, living line extends
Touched by goad, approach the bending ends
Rings join to rings, and irritated tubes
Clasp with young lips the nutrient globes cubes
And urged by appetencies new select
Imbibe, retain, digest, secrete, eject.
In branching the living web expands
Lymphatic ducts and convoluted glands;
Aortal tubes prope the nascent blood
And lengthenng veins absorb the refuent flood;
Leaves, lungs and glls the vital ether breathe
On eartlfs green surface the beneath
So LIES first powers arrest the winds and floods,
To bones convert them, to shells woods;
Stretch the vast beds of argyll, lime and sand,
And from diminished form the land!
Next the long unite Their silver train
And young Sensation permeates the brain;
Through each the keen emotions DART
Flush the cheek and swell the thrODbing heart.
From pain and pleasure quick voitions rise,
Lift the strong arm, point the nquiring eyes,
With Reasons light bewildered man direct,
And right and wrong with balance nice detect.
Last thick associations swing,
Thoughts join thoughts, to motions motions cling;
Whence in long trains of catenation flow
Imagined joy and voluntary
SO, viewed through crystal spheres In drops saline,
Quick shooting salts in chemic salts combine;