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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344249" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Double Ballade Of Primitive Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lived in a cave by the seas,<br>He lived upon oysters and foes,<br>But his list of forbidden degrees,<br>An extensive morality shows;<br>Geological evidence goes<br>To prove he had never a pan,<br>But he shaved with a shell when he chose, -<br>'Twas the manner of Primitive Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He worshipp'd the rain and the breeze,<br>He worshipp'd the river that flows,<br>And the Dawn, and the Moon, and the trees,<br>And bogies, and serpents, and crows;<br>He buried his dead with their toes<br>Tucked-up, an original plan,<br>Till their knees came right under their nose, -<br>'Twas the manner of Primitive Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His communal wives, at his ease,<br>He would curb with occasional blows;<br>Or his State had a queen, like the bees<br>(As another philosopher trows):<br>When he spoke, it was never in prose,<br>But he sang in a strain that would scan,<br>For (to doubt it, perchance, were morose)<br>'Twas the manner of Primitive Man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the coasts that incessantly freeze,<br>With his stones, and his bones, and his bows;<br>On luxuriant tropical leas,<br>Where the summer eternally glows,<br>He is found, and his habits disclose<br>(Let theology say what she can)<br>That he lived in the long, long agos,<br>'Twas the manner of Primitive Man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From a status like that of the Crees,<br>Our society's fabric arose, -<br>Develop'd, evolved, if you please,<br>But deluded chronologists chose,<br>In a fancied accordance with Mos<br>es, 4000 B. C. for the span<br>When he rushed on the world and its woes, -<br>'Twas the manner of Primitive Man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the mild anthropologist,--HE'S<br>Not RECENT inclined to suppose<br>Flints Palaeolithic like these,<br>Quaternary bones such as those!<br>In Rhinoceros, Mammoth and Co.'s,<br>First epoch, the Human began,<br>Theologians all to expose, -<br>'Tis the MISSION of Primitive Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENVOY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MAX, proudly your Aryans pose,<br>But their rigs they undoubtedly ran,<br>For, as every Darwinian knows,<br>'Twas the manner of Primitive Man!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Lang">Andrew Lang</a><div class=q>
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