Poems of evolution

Smith, Langdon · 1908

A fire mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cavemen dwell-- Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod; Some call it EVOLUTION, And some call it GOD. When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life For I loved you even the…

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