You wretched ghost, with clay bedight,
Think on me here in this plight!
I was a man, with a man's fear --
You shall be such as I am here.
An anonymous middle English epigram taken from The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics by Lewis Turco London, 2000. p.147
Image is a neanderthal skull:
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