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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Not Changelings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They all came in their thousand millions<br>Saber Tooths, Neanderthal's, Do-Do Birds<br>Homo-Hablis and Dinosours; <br> <br>gathering for Species Review<br>in the wide meadow forest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The homing pigeon said <br>'Me and mine when we took to the sky<br>were millions<br>eclipsing the mid-day sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Buffalo King said 'we once carpeted<br>the grasslands and once on the move<br>we made the Earth Thunder.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were fishes of the sea<br>amphibians, Sharks and crustaceans, <br>blow-fish, Australopithecus, great civilizations: <br>Atlantians, Mayans, Ancient Egyptians<br>Romans and Spartans, Huns and Goths-<br>all cultures which grew, matured and were lost<br>to time, bad luck, or circumstance, or overcome by<br>hordes, climate change, internal strife, or catastrophe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some fell down from internal contradiction-<br>spent all their energies on murdering one another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Ancient One finally rose<br>amid the Clamoring Laments<br>all looked up-some saying <br>'What sir did we do wrong- why did we fail? <br>What is the secret of survival for species like us? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I' he said, 'have no great wisdom, each of you expired<br>for different reasons, <br>but if I had one highlight to note<br>failure would be in the failure to adapt, <br>and to live only by rote.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The genius of all things is the ability to learn- <br>to alter patterns and beliefs to fit a changed circumstance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fish did learn to live on land, <br>reptiles learned to fly, the large learned how to live small.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the climate changes you may have to leave your ancestral home<br>follow the game; learn to make warm clothes, <br>guide yourselves by the stars, <br>make a bed in caves, abandon hunting for horticulture gains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In all this was a central point, change or go obsolete and become extinct.<br>There was a general tumult, 'Must we then' the religious said<br>'give up our religion and choose change? ; <br>not us. ' they said.<br>'Must we give up our privileges some said, 'over my dead body then'<br>Others said ' I cannot imagine giving up my home and moving on-<br>how would I survive? ' <br>'We' the Huns said 'must take what we need.'<br>We'll not change they all said. We will keep what we've earned.'<br>We will resist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well' the Ancient One said<br>'no surprize then that you are all extinct.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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Saber Tooths, Neanderthal's, Do-Do Birds
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The homing pigeon said 
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