Poems (Jordan)/Evolved
EVOLVED
The evolution of a Deed is this;— First, dormant in the power of a man,It crawleth thence (with clinging chrysalis) Unto his thought, and there becomes a Plan,Which, perfect in all its members, doth spring— A living creature—to our sight, 'mid cheersWhich challenge universal copying, And thus, in diff'rent forms, the Same appears.