NEBULA TO MAN 
Another world is breaking on their sight, 
Than that whose all is carnal appetite. 
More real than dreams is Art with these men here. 100 
The mammoth, bison, horse, and antlered deer 
Must frequent hold their thoughts ; but not their prey 
Alone with hunter's eye do they survey. 
For time they have, and power is theirs to trace, 
In graphic strokes, the victims of the chase. 105 
See here a man on tusk of mammoth graving, 
With pointed flake, an angered monster waving 
Its trunky snout. Another, that has seen 
The reindeer bucks in antlered contest keen, 
Depicts to life the well-remembered scene. no 
Here one on stone, with more laborious pains, 
Draws " Irish " deer, and red-deer on the plains. 
With faithful hand the horse is outlined too, 
And even man, at times, is brought in view. 
Thus have the hunter-artists found pursuit, 115 
That lifts them high indeed above the brute, 
And shows the loftier levels they have gained 
Than those their rude forerunners had attained. 
And well in shape of head these men compare 
With those first men that breathed Europa's air. 1 20 
Massive may be their jaws and forward set, 
Giving the face an ape-like cast, but yet 
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