So, while Lucretian wonders I rehearse,

Augusta's sons shall patronise my verse.

I sing of Atoms, whose creative brain,

With eddying impulse, built new Drury Lane;

Not to the labours of subservient man,

To no young Wyatt appertains the plan—

We mortals stalk, like horses in a mill,

Impassive media of atomic will;

Ye stare! then Truth's broad talisman discern—

'Tis Demonstration speaks—attend, and learn!