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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPACE, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a tiny electron Last Line: Though just what it is I don't know. Subject(s): Science; Scientists | |||
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...REACTIONARY ESSAY ON APPLIED SCIENCE by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM by HILAIRE BELLOC AN AMERICAN SCENE by NORMAN DUBIE WHY WAIT FOR SCIENCE by ROBERT FROST DIXIT INSIPIENS by CAROLYN KIZER GLOBULE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER |
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