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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459802" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Swan Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is evolution wiser than we know? <br>Are we to believe it nothing more<br>nor less, than threats, in holy or unholy<br>alliance with blind chance; <br>survival of the fittest, its whole aim? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And swans, but upside-down giraffes? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once upon a time… when food became too short<br>for the short-necked to reach the last top leaves, <br>the ones with longer necks, survived; <br>female giraffes, noting this, <br>sought partners for their progeny among the longer-necked; <br>and so, nature stretched her expanding world<br>to – giraffes…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the short-necked ducks<br>ran short of food, <br>the longer-necked reached down in shallow water..<br>the females noted this.. and finally... the swan<br>emerged.. its feathers waterproof, <br>its bird-feet, larger; claws now webbed…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus, we sentimental human beings –<br>who cannot add such cubits to our stature –<br>stand and marvel; as those graceful swans<br>make life seem easy… little do we see<br>of where their work is done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mother Evolution, so it seems, <br>is liberal with her gifts –<br>here, an ungainly visual joke; <br>there, an elegant white curve of beauty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hindus name their holy men<br>as ‘hamsa’, swan: gliding over life; <br>their work, in inner realms we would not know; <br>giraffes –camelopards, as they were called<br>by puzzled Europeans; splay-legged, <br>with ears that look surprised; <br>walking periscopes; waiting<br>for a poet to join them in a question: <br>does Evolution need now, to evolve?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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Are we to believe it nothing more
nor less, than threats, in holy or unholy
alliance with blind chance; 
survival of the fittest, its whole aim? 

And swans, but upside-down giraffes? 

Once upon a time… when fo..."></div>
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