Squinting into the lens plugged tube
At a droplet placed upon a slide,
His focused eye beheld an unknown world.
The water bead became a circular sea,
Teeming with writhing blobs of life,
With creatures never seen in myth or dream.
“Wee beasties!” he exclaimed in trembling awe
When his intrusion into microcosm
Magnified what he and we could know.