In thunder-music. Yea, we hear their voice,

And we may guess their minds from ours, their work.

Some taste they have like ours, some tendency

To wriggle about, and munch a trace of scum.”

He floated up on a pin-point bubble of gas,

That burst, pricked by the air, and he was gone.

One was a barren-minded monad, called

A positivist, and he knew positively:

“There was no world beyond this certain drop.

Prove me another! Let the dreamers dream