NEBULA TO MAN 
The tusks are gone, as though of use no more, 
Giving the trunk more freedom than of yore. 
Small pigs, allied to those that haunt to-day 
The Andamans, about the woodlands stray. 125 
And forms full twice as large here too are found, 
Grubbing with snorting snouts the forest ground. 
But not yet can these porky champions shew 
The tusky wealth, the later breeds will know. 
Some forms, of Zebra, size, now on the land 1 30 
Seem to proclaim true horses near at hand. 
Still smaller are their lateral toes now grown, 
The mid toe having made their strength its own. 
Indeed these creatures' progress since the day 
From Tapir ranks they slowly broke away, 135 
And as a separate family took root, 
Is written in their slow compacting foot. 
But in Columbia has the equine name, 
Long noised abroad, now leapt to further fame. 
For here are forms whose side toes are unseen, 1 40 
So shrunk are these, and bedded in the skin. 
And these new forms we now may fairly hail 
As horses true, and well within the pale. 
Forms too there are, no longer pigmy size, 
But high as horses of to-day they rise. 145 
Yet will Columbia not in time retain 
These home developed types in her domain. 
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