With every word that's fallen from your lips.

The author of "The Dynasts" has indeed

Misused his undeniably great gifts

In striving to belittle things that are

Little enough already. I don't say

That the phrenetical behaviour

Of those aforesaid animalculae

Did, while we watched them, seem to indicate

Possession of free-will. But, bear in mind,

We saw them in peculiar circumstances—