Time & Brevity
Genesis
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Time & Brevity
Did Chaos form,—and water, air, and fire,
Rocks, trees, the worm, work toward Humanity,—
That Man at last, beneath the churchyard spire,
Might be once more the worm, the rock, the tree?
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