NEBULA TO MAN 
And still to them the art seems quite unknown 
Of how to grind to edge their rough flaked stone. 
But though all rude their implements may be, 
More skill these show, and more variety CQ 
Than did the ones the first men could command, 
When foot they set upon the ice-freed land. 
Not merely clumsy lumps of battered stone 
Do these new comers to Europa own ; 
But well shaped saws, skin-scrapers, tools to bore, 55 
And lance and arrow heads are in their store. 
Bone needles too they have, with well-drilled eye : 
And these the womankind may have to ply, 
The while the men go hunting far abroad ; 
And will not reindeer sinews thread afford, 60 
Wherewith the housewives may together string 
The scraped out skins, for clothes and sheltering ? 
But not in better implements alone, 
Have these new men their greater powers shown. 
Of fire the various uses are they learning, 65 
And by their huts and caves hearths bright are burning ; 
And well cooked flesh on home return they find, 
And warm they keep though bitter blow the wind. 
Reindeer and bison yield them welcome food ; 
Nor will musk-sheep and antelope elude 70 
Their hungry search. Guessing but little yet 
To what good service horses may be set, 
They but regard them fish caught in the net, 
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