To form that remarkable structure it pleased him to call—his mind.
Last, praise we the noble body to which, for the time, we belong,
Ere yet the swift whirl of the atoms has hurried us, ruthless, along,
The British Association—like Leviathan worshipped by Hobbes,
The incarnation of wisdom, built up of our witless nobs,
Which will carry on endless discussions when I, and probably you,
Have melted in infinite azure—in English, till all is blue.
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION.
Belfast, 1874.