...lamentation; What have I to do with lamentation? I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be. My feet strike an apex of the apices...and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly traveled — and still I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see...

...lamentation, (What have I to do with lamentation?) I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and lanencloserof things to be. My feet strike an apex of the apices...and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount. Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me, Afar down I see...

...Euro-American human who is all, who has climbed the evolutionary ladder by his own hubris-ridden bootstraps: My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs,...and larger bunches between the steps, All below duly traveled — and still I mount and mount. (LG 55, 50) As poetic ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, it...