Thus life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Til… - Langdon Smith

Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed feet
Writing a language dumb, With never a spark in the empty dark
To hint at a life to come.

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 turned on in the lathe of time, The hot lands heaved amain,
Till we caught our breath from the womb of death And crept into light again.

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.