But Doctor Burdon Sanderson tells
It began in a cell oh! æons ago!
And Progress is merely the growth of cells.
And is that what you were fashioned for
Our "unicellular ancestor"?
"The specific energy of cells"
Is a taking phrase, but what does it mean?
Is it merely the Life that in most things dwells,
Or must we go reading the lines between,
To find what you really were fashioned for,