Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
It is not the moist air that extraverts any preexistent nitrous parts from the body of the minerals.
At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.
Ah, what a sight were you when first / By freak of matter Adam* burst / Through Simian womb! / Scant then man’s prate / Of human nature’s high estate. / Yet, though his limbs with pile were rough, / And though his tail was long enough / (You smile, reformed orang-utang! / Have I not seen th’ appendage hang / About your ends, till wear and tear / Curtailed the terminating hair? / Type of the subtype Simiadæ! / King of the genus Chimpanzee! / There! feel the place! ’tis even now / In loco if not in statu quo), / Th’ apesses treated with disdain— / Half-handed thing with double brain, / With brow protruding all before, / Trachea formed to squeak and roar, / With shortened arms and thumbless feet, / Circular paunch, and rounded seat; / That chattered with such couthless sound, / And walked, not crawled, upon the ground. / Such your forefather. Yet, when he / Was grown to lusty puberty, / Superior ingenuity / Taught him with score of apes to mate, / And thus kind to propagate.
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