NEBULA TO MAN 
Till one it is with that great Midland sea, 
That had annexed South Britain's territory. 
Away to west the junctioned waters wend 
And o'er Devonia's lower lands extend ; 75 
And then through central Britain find their ways, 
As waters had in early Jura days. 
Then west they press, till in array there stand 
High hills to block the way to Cambria's land ; 
And for a time here lies their western strand. 80 
Britain's more northern lands still keep their hold 
With Scandinavia as in days of old ; 
And one are they with land, that westward stretches 
And on to Greenland's well clothed terrane reaches ; 
(For not as yet has climate, changing, thrown 85 
An icy mantle o'er the arctic zone). 
But by subsidence brought as to their knees 
More lands are now surrendering to the seas ; 
And vanish quite in regions far and near, 
Alike in east and western hemisphere. 90 
Indeed is Earth in such commotion thrown, 
As since pre-Cambrian days she scarce had known. 
Lands in Germania now sea-covered lie, 
That had, from earliest days, stood high and dry. 
Grecia that long aloft her breast had borne 95 
Within the rampant floods has now been drawn ; 
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