![]() ![]() Langdon Smith (4 January 1858 – 8 April 1908) was an American journalist and author. Here’s the Wiki page of the poem’s author: Call me a sap if you wish (or worse), but I still really like the poem. Those are just the first two verses of thirteen and a half, some of which still give me a chuckle and some an involuntary chill when I read them. Till we caught our breath from the womb of death The world turned on in the lathe of time, ![]() And its rhymes are so clever:Īnd deep in the rift of the Caradoc drift Even at the age of ten it amused me and also moved me, and you know what? It still does. ![]() When I was a child of around ten, one semi-bored day I came across the light-verse poem “ Evolution” in a book on a shelf in my house. ![]()
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