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(Neolithic)
Once we feared The Beast -- when he followed us we ran, / Ran very fast though we knew / It was not right that The Beast should master Man; / But what could we Flint-workers do? / The Beast only grinned at our spears round his ears -- / Grinned at the hammers that we made; / But now we will hunt him for the life with the Knife -- / And this is the Buyer of the Blade!