i’ve just been struck, astounded, by the thought
Of evolution in a lit’ral sense:
“Family with all the world” is not
Pretentious abstract poetic license
But truly, that the fam’ly tree is one
Our fathers’ mothers’ father was a fish
His cousins grew as trees beneath a Sun,
Who is our uncle — sounds so childish!
How can i make it clearer, say it plain?
Our parents’ parents — worms and stones and stars!
On absolutely ev’ry atom’s chain,
The first link is the very same as ours
Literally, children of one cell —
The tersest truth is trickiest to tell!
