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BY AN EVOLUTIONIST.

 

The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man,
And the man said, 'Am I your debtor?'
And the Lord–'Not yet; but make it as clean as you can,
And then I will let you a better.'

I.

If my body come from brutes, my soul uncertain or a fable,