For otherwise, pretensions such as thine can’t stand.”
To them as a rejoinder puss spoke: “My dear friends,
My inspiration’s God’s; small means effect great ends.
The wisdom God hath taught the little honey-bee,
You do not find possessed by lion, or by me.115
We see its cells arranged, with liquid sweetness filled,
The portals of such art to open God hath willed.
Then see the silkworm, how it’s taught by God to spin.
Have elephants the power to draw out threads so thin?
The earthy Adam was by God taught all our names.[150]