Postscript.L’envoi.Long, long ago, when the Earth was youngAnd Time was not yet old,Ere all the stars in the sky were hung,Or the silver moon grown cold;When the clouds that sail between the worldsWere fanned with fluttering wings,And over all the land there curledThe fronds of growing things;When fishes swarmed in all the seas,And on the wooded shoreThere roamed among the forest treesA million beasts or more;Then in the early morn of Time,Called from the formless clod,Came Man, to start the weary climbFrom wild beast up to God,—Oh, bravely did he dare and do,And bravely fight and die,Or you to-day could not be youAnd I could not be I.
L’envoi.Long, long ago, when the Earth was youngAnd Time was not yet old,Ere all the stars in the sky were hung,Or the silver moon grown cold;When the clouds that sail between the worldsWere fanned with fluttering wings,And over all the land there curledThe fronds of growing things;When fishes swarmed in all the seas,And on the wooded shoreThere roamed among the forest treesA million beasts or more;Then in the early morn of Time,Called from the formless clod,Came Man, to start the weary climbFrom wild beast up to God,—Oh, bravely did he dare and do,And bravely fight and die,Or you to-day could not be youAnd I could not be I.
L’envoi.Long, long ago, when the Earth was youngAnd Time was not yet old,Ere all the stars in the sky were hung,Or the silver moon grown cold;When the clouds that sail between the worldsWere fanned with fluttering wings,And over all the land there curledThe fronds of growing things;When fishes swarmed in all the seas,And on the wooded shoreThere roamed among the forest treesA million beasts or more;Then in the early morn of Time,Called from the formless clod,Came Man, to start the weary climbFrom wild beast up to God,—Oh, bravely did he dare and do,And bravely fight and die,Or you to-day could not be youAnd I could not be I.
|Introduction| |Chapter 1| |Chapter 2| |Chapter 3| |Chapter 4| |Chapter 5| |Chapter 6| |Chapter 7| |Chapter 8| |Chapter 9| |Chapter 10| |Postscript|