Ballads in Blue China by Andrew Lang
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page 30 of 75 (40%)
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Where the summer eternally glows,
He is found, and his habits disclose (Let theology say what she can) That he lived in the long, long agos, 'Twas the manner of Primitive Man! From a status like that of the Crees, Our society's fabric arose, - Develop'd, evolved, if you please, But deluded chronologists chose, In a fancied accordance with Mos es, 4000 B. C. for the span When he rushed on the world and its woes, - 'Twas the manner of Primitive Man! But the mild anthropologist,--HE'S Not RECENT inclined to suppose Flints Palaeolithic like these, Quaternary bones such as those! In Rhinoceros, Mammoth and Co.'s, First epoch, the Human began, Theologians all to expose, - 'Tis the MISSION of Primitive Man. ENVOY. MAX, proudly your Aryans pose, But their rigs they undoubtedly ran, For, as every Darwinian knows, 'Twas the manner of Primitive Man! {2} |
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