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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 change.

— Langdon Smith Evolution (1895)

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For we know the clod, by the grace of God
Will quicken with voice and breath;
And we know that Love, with gentle hand
Will beckon from death to death.

Evolution (1895)

The world turned on in the lathe of time,
The hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the womb of death
And crept into light again.

Evolution (1895)

And, oh! what beautiful years were these
When our hearts clung each to each;
When life was filled and our senses thrilled
In the first faint dawn of speech.

Evolution (1895)

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time
And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

My heart was rife with the joy of life,
For I loved you even then.

Evolution (1895)

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