Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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MAN “DARWINISED;” OR, THE ANTI-CLIMAX. |
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MAN “DARWINISED;” OR, THE ANTI-CLIMAX.
I had a glorious vision once. MethoughtA form angelic kept me company:
Wings had it; whether to or from the sky
Its flight, whence come, or whither going, naught
Assurance gave; yet all things from it caught
Suggestion beyond sense. Mortality
Seemed but a garment soon to be cast by,
In forms divine after that pattern wrought!
But as some Bird of Paradise, that pines
In harsh, unsunned confine, and moulteth fast
Its heavenly plumage, fainter grew the lines
Of form Divine, into mere Human past!
Soon too, showed through the Human mask sad signs
Of change, Gorilla's coming form forecast!
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