There 's the palm-aphis, minute miracle

As wondrous every whit as thou or I:

Well, and his world's the palm-frond, there he 's born,

Lives, breeds, and dies in that circumference,

An inch of green for cradle, pasture-ground,

Purlieu and grave: the palm's use, ask of him!

'To furnish these,' replies his wit: ask thine—

Who see the heaven above, the earth below,

Creation everywhere,—these, each and all

Claim certain recognition from the tree