NEBULA TO MAN 
As those huge brutes to south. Elephants have taken 200 
Hither their way. Mastodons, though forsaken 
Seem all their " old world " haunts, here find a living ; 
And tapirs, elks, and oxen are arriving. 
Travelling, maybe, o'er lands where not as yet 
Had Arctic waters and Pacific met, 205 
Men here have come, that seem of race the same 
As those first men that to Europa came. 
At least their tools and weapons, rude wrought, shew 
That they as yet no higher culture know. 
(And men indeed in culture such as these 210 
Had scattered wide through Asia's territories. 
And men in state the same for long had been 
In Afric too, at least on Egypt's scene.) 
Whilst thus Columbia, of thick ice relieved, 
And fair Europa have their place retrieved ; 215 
So too are other lands, long overlain, 
Freed of their yoke, and bright with life again. 
And thus the plague, at length, has passed away ; 
And though shrunk glaciers still afar may stray, 
Yet such an ice, that had been as the deep 220 
Frozen on land, from henceforth now must keep 
To polar zones : and there, in closer walls 
May hold, and oft, its monster festivals. 
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