If simplified still further one degree:

The small becomes the dreadful and immense!

Lightning, forsooth? No word more upon that!

A tin-foil bottle, a strip of greasy silk,

With a bit of wire and knob of brass, and there 's

Your dollar's-worth of lightning! But the cyst—

The life of the least of the little things?

No, no!

Preachers and teachers try another tack,

Come near the truth this time: they put aside