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 Apes lifting hairy arms now stand And free the wonder-working hand. They raise a light, aerial house
 * On shafts of widely branching trees,

Where, harboured warily, each spouse
 * May feed her little ape in peace,

Green cradled in his heaven-roofed bed, Leaves rustling lullabies o'erhead. And lo, 'mid recking swarms of earth
 * Grim struggling in the primal wood,

A new strange creature hath its birth:
 * Wild—stammering—nameless—shameless—nude;

Spurred on by want, held in by fear, He hides his head in caverns drear. Most unprotected of earth's kin,
 * His fight for life that seems so vain