NEBULA TO MAN 
Throughout its frame promiscuously are done 
The various functions of each little one. 
No organs in their structures are devised 
Organs to separate labours specialised : 
But each through every portion of its mass 160 
Can eat and drink and waste material pass. 
Simple indeed these specks of life appear, 
Yet what a wondrous power has risen here ! 
And though they will advance, in times to be, 
To higher states of vast complexity ; 165 
Still here in these first forms enshrined there lies 
The germ of all the life that will arise. 
Not down to rigid lines are they fast bound 
'Mid elemental forces rife around. 
Resource is theirs to vary with the times, 170 
And rise responsive to the fickle climes, 
And mutable conditions of the vast 
Transforming world, in which their lot is cast. 
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'Mid change and stress, the motive powers of Fate, 
Live now some cells, no longer isolate ; 175 
But keep, as they enlarge and multiply, 
With offshoot cells a bond and sympathy. 
And in the cells that thus together hold 
Are all the hopes of higher life inrolled. 
As fast within their fold the cells increase, 1 80 
To new formations are they forced to pass, 
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