Because the man they called an “atheist” smiled
At dates assigned by bland ecclesiasts
To God for His creation?
Man was made
On March the ninth, at ten o’clock in the morning
(A Tuesday), just six thousand years ago:
A legend of a somewhat different cast
From that deep music of the first great phrase
In Genesis. The strange irony here struck home.
For Darwin, here, was with the soul-bowed throng