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     The following poem, by Laudgoti 
     
     Smith. a newspaper man oi! New 
     
     York who died in 1908. is rollfllll" 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ed irom the Literary D1599“ _, V 
     
     When you were a tadpole l was a 
     
    

    
     fish l ' . . ' 
     
    

    
     1h Paleozoc true. 
     
     fitnnd side by side on the ebbing _ 
     
    

    
     - tide 
     
    

    
     We sprawled through the ooze and - . 
     
    

    
     slimv, 
     
     nr-"shittered with many :1 caudal , _ . 
     
    

    
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     Thronlpgh the déblhi 97 J19 Cmn‘ 
     
    

    
     lsriau fen. 
     
     My hear; was rife wi-th the love of _ 
     
    

    
     life. I ' i 
     
    
   
   
    
     And 1 loved you. even then. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ztlindless we lived, and mindless 
     
     we loved. _ 
     
    

    
     And mindless ut last we 111611. 
     
    

    
     And deep in a riit of the Curadoc 
     
    
   
   
    
     drift. _ 
     
    

    
     We slumbered. side by side: , 
     
    

    
     The world turned ou.in the lathe   
     
     of time. ii . 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The hot lands heaved amain, 
     
    

    
     Ti]! we caught our breath from the" _ I 
     
     - b i‘ d th .. 
     
    

    
     Anrih-‘Zlh ihto eliife again. 7Z9 all/e‘ wtapper 
     
    
   
   
    
     o/wa/er-anzl-mazlr/are 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
        
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     we were Amphibians, scaled nnd pyag/Ipafd/f/n 
     
     tailed 
     
     And drab as a dead man's hand. u 
     
     ' l d t ' -th th d i - 
     
     “e ff; eueflsfm” “i” _° r m’ 7Z0 regakr 01d 
     
     Or trailed through the mud and hum (Igwp/pgf 
     
     m“; s owin name 
     
     i d hli d. lth -th - 
     
      "  a  imdrrddemda 
     
     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 \ve _ ‘ 7/16’ k€3uy‘ 
     
     -l0vell, (If! h!’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     And happy we died once more; ~ 
     
    

    
     Our forms were rolled in the cling- 
     
     ing mould 
     
    

    
     Oi a Neocomian shore. 
     
    

    
     The eons came, and the oonzyfled. 
     
    
   
   
    
     And the-sleep that \V|'fl[“‘(iil us . 
     
    

    
     - as ' - ffie fieaz/y 
     
     Was rivir away in a newer day ' 
     
     And the night of (leati: was past. mam/é? paper 
     
    
   
   
    
     Then light and swift through the 
     
     jungle trees 
     
    

    
     We swung in our airy flights, 
     
    

    
     Or breathed in the ‘balms of the 
     
     frounded palms 
     
    
   
   
    
     "“i‘?-'?l‘?“°’   ' to bring you the full richness 
     
    
   
   
    
     And oh.’ wha’ beautiful years wen- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Whetrileohth hearts clung each to I .      
     
    
   
   
    
     each. 
     
     When life was filled and our sens- 
     
     ‘*5 thrilled ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     ln the first faint dawn oi speech 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Thus life 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 chitmze. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Till ggirlirtese came a time in the law Manuractul-Qd  
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘when over the nursing sod _ 
     
    
   
   
    
     The shadows broke, and the soul       
     
    
   
   
    
     awoke 
     
     In a strange, dim dream of 00d.  
     
    
   
   
    
     I was thawed like an Auroch bull 
     
     And tasked like the great Cave 
     
     Bear, 
     
    
   
   
    
     For we lived by blood and the Your hair as dark as jet. ’ may say Where the mummied Mammoth 
     
     And you’ my ‘ween from hm“! m Your years are few, your lifz is We shall not live again? are 
     
     ‘eat’ right of might, new, . » 
     
     were grown“ h‘ 7°“ 5mm)“ Ere human laws were drawn. Your soul untried and yet. God wrought our souls from the Then as we linger at luncheon 
     
     1m"; And the Age of Sin did not yet Trema doc beds hem, 
     
     Deep In “'9 51mm of a ‘M31955 begin Our trail ‘is on the Kimmsridge And furnished them wings to fly, O‘er many a dainty dish, 
     
     cave’ a Pill our brutish tusks were gone. clay He. sowed our spawn in the world's LB! 0B drink anew t0 the lime 
     
     when {he "'5'"- re“ d" m“ mm‘ And tha scarp of the Purbeck dim dawn i when you 
     
     bed’ ' That was a million years ago flagg, And I know that it shall not dieflwflre IPIMIPOIB- and l fl fish- 
     
     we nlumbled the Dom“ °r m“ in a land that no man knows, We have left our bones in the Though cities have sprung above '—-—¢°¢——* 
     
     “hi”: And now tonight, Ill the mellow Bagshot stones /the graves A "H0 cage won't feed the bird. 
     
     ' light. And deep in the Coraline crags: Where the crork-boned men made 
     
     I flaked a flint of a cutting 6639 We sit at Delmoncitfs; _ Our love is old, our lives are old. war; Your Father knoweth what 
     
     And shaped it with brutish craft, you, eyes are as dgep as the And death shall come again; And the ox-waia creeks o'er the things ye have need of before ye 
     
     l broke a shank from the wood- Devon 59,1135, Should it come today, what man buried caves ask him.‘ ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     land dank 
     
     And fitted it. head and haft; i4 
     
     Then I hid me close to the ready 
     
    
   
   
    
     tarn ' 
     
     Where the Mammoth came to 
     
     drink 
     
     Through brawn and bone l drove 
     
     the stone 
     
    
   
   
    
     And slew him upon the bdink. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Loud l howled through the moon‘ 
     
     lit wastes 
     
    

    
     And called on my kith and kin, 
     
    

    
     From west nnd east to the crimson 
     
     feastw 
     
    

    
     The clan came trooping in; 
     
    

    
     0'01‘ 10?! nnd gristle and padded 
     
    

    
     oo 
     
    
   
   
    
     We fought. and clawed. and tore. 
     
     And check by Jowl, with many a 
     
    

    
     growl. 
     
     We talked the marvel o'er. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     I carved that fight on a iolndeer 
     
     bone 
     
    
   
   
    
     With a rude and hairy hand, 1 I ""1 d” ‘ ‘ ' ' ' l _' 
     
     l mogul?” M. u" on m’ “Wm Ph t ph shown the dipping of the colon as the Royal coach bearing their Mnieatien. the King and Queen of Enginnd- P!!!“ 
     
     w: o ogra I - 
     
    
   
   
    
     That men might understand. _ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
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