Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Humorous Poems: II. Miscellaneous

Darwin

Mortimer Collins (1827–1876)

THERE was an ape in the days that were earlier;

Centuries passed, and his hair grew curlier;

Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist,

Then he was a Man and a Positivist.