To the uttermost by any heart and soul

We know or have in record: both of them

Acknowledged blindly by whatever man

We ever knew or heard of in this world.

"Will you have why and wherefore, and the fact

Made plain as pikestaff?" modern Science asks.

"That mass man sprung from was a jelly-lump

Once on a time; he kept an after-course

Through fish and insect, reptile, bird and beast,

Till he attained to be an ape at last