...help'd me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cneerful boatmen. For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences...embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it. Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been...

...helped me, Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like faithful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. "All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my...

...helped me; Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen; For room to me the stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences...I was born out of my mother generations guided me, And forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me; Now, on this spot I stand with my...

...long and long. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences...transported it in their mouths and deposited it with All forces have been steadily employ 'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my...

...helped me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences...on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous saurpids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employed...

...aeons ! Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me the stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences...it. For it the nebula cohered to an orb, The long, low strata piled to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported...

...lethargic mist. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room for me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me. Change viewed scientifically is called evolution. Change looked at imaginatively is called reincarnation....

...cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own ringe, They sent influences to look after what was to hold...me. Before I was born out of my mother generations gnided me, My embryo has петег been torpid, nothing conld overlay it. For it the nebnla cohered...

...help'd me. -«r Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences...to rest it on, Vast vegetables gave it sustenance, All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me, Now on this spot I stand with my...

...of ages, and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount. Before I was born out of my mother generations guided...it sustenance, Monstrous sauroids transported it in then* mouths and deposited it with care. Sandburg's poem is more personal, less "prophetic" in tone,...