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...MOTHER JUNKIE by CLARENCE MAJOR ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by JOHN KEATS EXHORTATION TO PRAYER by MARGARET MERCER WINDSOR FOREST by ALEXANDER POPE JOHN PELHAM by JAMES RYDER RANDALL SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 50 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |