PROGRESS 



The Crab to Cancer junior gave advice: 

 "Know what you want, my son, and then proceed 

 Directly sideways. God has thus decreed — 



Progress is lateral; let that suffice." 



Darwinian Tapeworms on the other hand 

 Agree that Progress is a loss of brain, 

 And all that makes it hard for worms to attain 



The true Nirvana — peptic, pure, and grand. 



Man too enjoys to omphaloscopize. 



Himself as Navel of the Universe 



Oft rivets him — until he asks his Nurse, 

 Old Nature, for the truth; and she replies: 

 "Look back, and find support; you march with Life's main stream. 

 Look on— be proud; her future lies within your dream." 



London, Feb. 1923. 



