Excerpt from A Booklet of Verse

Primeval Man:

Methought that I surveyed the conquered earth,
And felt my breast swelling with pride of kind: -
Man, feeblest, slayer with lightning of the mind,
Lord of all life, and final judge of worth!

Suddenly, the sky, roaring, gives wild birth
To shaggy mammoths who the forests grind,
Huge bears, and wolfpacks fleeter than the hind,
That check my vaunting with a monstrous mirth: -

"Thinkest our fear of man - a fear of thee,
Poor cowardly liver by thine apish wits?
Our conqueror left with us long ago!

"Degenerate heir of unearned benefits,
Wouldst thou dare front us with his spear and bow?
His eye couldst thou endure so long as we?"

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