CITAl^T.R XX r 

 MAN'S PLAC€ IN NATURE 



A sacred kinsliip I would not forojjo 



Binds me to all tliat hrcathes: tiirou-rh «iidl.-s^ <tr\\ 



The calm ajid deathless di«^iiity of life 



Unites each blccdinj:; victim to its foe. 



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I am the child of earth ami air and S4«a. 



My lullaby by hoarse Silurian storms 



Was chanted, and throup:h endless changing f«)nn8 



Of tree and bird and l)east unceasin<;ly 



The toiling ages wrought to fashion me. 



Lo! these large ancestors have left a breath 

 Of their great souls in mine, defying death 

 And change. I grow and blossom as the tree, 

 And ever feel deep-delving earthy roots 

 Binding me daily to the common clay: 

 Yet with its airy impulse ujtward shoots 

 My soul into the realms of light and day. 

 And thou,^ O sea, stern mother of my soul, 

 Thy tempests ring in me, thy billows roll! 



— H.IAI..MAK lljOHTH I*<1YF.SF:\. 



IMan betrays his relation to what is Im-Iow him, thick-skulled, 

 small-brained, fishy, <|uadrumanous (|uadru|>e(i. ill-disguis<Ml, hardly 

 escaped into bipeil, and has j)aid for the new p(nvers by the lo.ss of some 

 of the old ones. Hut the lightning which explodes and fashions planet.x, 

 maker of ])lanets and suns, is in hifu. ( )n the one si«le elemental «)nler, 

 sandstone and granite, rock ledges, peat bog. forest, sen. and shon». 

 On the other part, thought and the spirit whicli comp(>.««'s and deeoin- 



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