Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - Evolution lyrics

I am the child of earth and air and sea, My lullaby by hoarse Silurian storms Was chanted; and through endless changing forms Of plant and bird and beast unceasingly The toiling ages wrought to fashion me. Lo, these large ancestors have left a breath Of their strong souls in mine, defying d**h And doom. I grow and blossom as the tree, And ever feel deep-delving, earthy roots Binding me daily to the common clay; But with its airy impulse upward shoots My life into the realms of light and day. And though, O Sea, stern mother of my soul, Thy tempests sing in me, thy billows roll!