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The Ancestor remote of Man	A
Says Darwin is th' Ascidian	A
A scanty sort of water beast	B
That ninety million years at least	B
Before Gorillas came to be	C
Went swimming up and down the sea	C
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Their ancestors the pious praise	D
And like to imitate their ways	D
How then does our first parent live	E
What lesson has his life to give	F
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Th' Ascidian tadpole young and gay	G
Doth Life with one bright eye survey	G
His consciousness has easy play	G
He's sensitive to grief and pain	A
Has tail and spine and bears a brain	A
And everything that fits the state	H
Of creatures we call vertebrate	H
But age comes on with sudden shock	I
He sticks his head against a rock	I
His tail drops off his eye drops in	A
His brain's absorbed into his skin	A
He does not move nor feel nor know	A
The tidal water's ebb and flow	A
But still abides unstirred alone	A
A sucker sticking to a stone	A
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And we his children truly we	C
In youth are like the Tadpole free	C
And where we would we blithely go	A
Have brains and hearts and feel and know	A
Then Age comes on To Habit we	C
Affix ourselves and are not free	C
Th' Ascidian's rooted to a rock	I
And we are bond slaves of the clock	I
Our rocks are Medicine Letters Law	J
From these our heads we cannot draw	J
Our loves drop off our hearts drop in	A
And daily thicker grows our skin	A
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Ah scarce we live we scarcely know	A
The wide world's moving ebb and flow	A
The clanging currents ring and shock	I
But we are rooted to the rock	I
And thus at ending of his span	A
Blind deaf and indolent does Man	A
Revert to the Ascidian	A

Andrew Lang

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