Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Blind , Mathilde (2011-03), The Ascent of Man. [With Other Poems.], British Library, Historical Print Editions, Retrieved on 2012-01-17Source Material [books.google.com]
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17 JAN 2012
The Ascent of Man in Poem Form
Apes lifting hairy arms now stand
And free the wonder?working hand.
They raise a light aërial house
On shafts of widely branching trees,
Where, harboured warily, each spouse
May feed her little ape in peace,
Green cradled in his heaven?roofed bed,
Leaves rustling lullabies o’erhead.
And lo, ’mid reeking swarms of earth
Grim struggling in the primal wood,
A new strange creature hath its birth:
Wild—stammering—nameless—shameless—nude;
Spurred on by want, held in by fear,
He hides his he...
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From apes with freed hands to muddled-thinking man in caves, up to clearer-thinking man with fire. A very nice passage about evolution.
