AFTER CHARLES DICKENS
MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE
(Dedicated to Darwin and Huxley)
THEY told him gently he was made
Of nicely tempered mud,
That man no lengthened part had played
Anterior to the Flood.
'Twas all in vain; he heeded not,
Referring plant and worm,
Fish, reptile, ape, and Hottentot,