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Andrew Lang - Double Ballade Of Primitive ManAndrew Lang - Double Ballade Of Primitive Man
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He lived in a cave by the seas, He lived upon oysters and foes, But his list of forbidden degrees, An extensive morality shows; Geological evidence goes To prove he had never a pan, But he shaved with a shell when he chose, - `Twas the manner of Primitive Man. He worshipp`d the rain and the breeze, He worshipp`d the river that flows, And the Dawn, and the Moon, and the trees, And bogies, and serpents, and crows; He buried his dead with their toes Tucked-up, an original plan, Till their knees came right under their nose, - `Twas the manner of Primitive Man. His communal wives, at his ease, He would curb with occasional blows; Or his State had a queen, like the bees (As another philosopher trows): When he spoke, it was never in prose, But he sang in a strain that would scan, For (to doubt it, perchance, were morose) `Twas the manner of Primitive Man! On the coasts that incessantly freeze, With his stones, and his bones, and his bows; On luxuriant tropical leas, Where the summer eternally glows, He is found, and his habits disclose (Let theology say what she can) That he lived in the long, long agos, `Twas the manner of Primitive Man! From a status like that of the Crees, Our society`s fabric arose, - Develop`d, evolved, if you please, But deluded chronologists chose, In a fancied accordance with Mos es, 4000 B. C. for the span When he rushed on the world and its woes, - `Twas the manner of Primitive Man! But the mild anthropologist,--HE`S Not RECENT inclined to suppose Flints Palaeolithic like these, Quaternary bones such as those! In Rhinoceros, Mammoth and Co.`s, First epoch, the Human began, Theologians all to expose, - `Tis the MISSION of Primitive Man. ENVOY. MAX, proudly your Aryans pose, But their rigs they undoubtedly ran, For, as every Darwinian knows, `Twas the manner of Primitive Man!
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