With thoughts of princes, poets, misanthropes,

Reveal their minute colors closer viewed.

Atomies, maggots, worms or gilded flies,

Nothing too small or foul is for your eyes.

You made a culture of dreams lost or won

Like Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson.

You looked in heaven when the lightning shone,

Then saw a fairy's whip of cricket bone.

For gods and men bacteriologist

Of spiritual microbes hidden which subsist