Mindless we lived and mindless we loved And mindless at last we died; And deep in the rift of the Caradoc drift We slumbered side by side. The world … - Langdon Smith

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time,
And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime,
Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen,
My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then.

I carved that fight on a reindeer bone With rude and hairy hand;
I pictured his fall on the cavern wall That men might understand.
For we lived by blood and the right of might Ere human laws were drawn,
And the age of sin did not begin Till our brutal tusks were gone.

And, oh! what beautiful years were these When our hearts clung each to each;
When life was filled and our senses thrilled In the first faint dawn of speech.