"Then as we linger at luncheon here O'er many a dainty dish, Let us drink anew to the time when you Were a tadpole and…"

"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled throu…"

"Mindless we lived and mindless we loved And mindless at last we died; And deep in the rift of the Caradoc drift We sl…"

"Croaking and blind, with our three-clawed feet Writing a language dumb, With never a spark in the empty dark To hint …"

"And, oh! what beautiful years were these When our hearts clung each to each; When life was filled and our senses thri…"

"Thus life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We f…"

"I was thewed like an Auroch bull And tusked like the great cave bear; And you, my sweet, from head to feet Were gowne…"

"I flaked a flint to a cutting edge And shaped it with brutish craft; I broke a shank from the woodland lank And fitte…"

"Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn, Where the mammoth came to drink; Through brawn and bone I drave the stone And …"

"Loud I howled through the moonlit wastes, Loud answered our kith and kin; From west and east to the crimson feast The…"