There was once a tiny electron Who gazed all about him and cried, "What an infinite thing is an atom! How deep and how long and how wide! Can the mind conceive anything huger? Well, I can't, for one, and I've tried!" An atom peered vaguely around him, And with every glance that he cast He thought, "Oh, a molecule's limits Are most unbelievably vast; For cosmic bewildering greatness A molecule can't be surpassed!" Yet the scientist's lens microscopic, For all of its strength, failed to show A glimpse of electron or atom Or molecule, either! And so We learn a most excellent moral, Though just what it is I don't know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SECRECY PROTESTED by THOMAS CAREW AN EPITAPH by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE MARY'S LAMB by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 48 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN MARSYAS by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS |