MEASUREMENT
Stars and atoms have no size,
They only vary in men's eyes.
Men and instruments will blunder
Calculating things of wonder.
A seed is just as huge a world
As any ball the sun has hurled.
Stars are quite as picayune
As any splinter of the moon.
Time is but a vague device;
Space can never be precise;
Stars and atoms have a girth,
Small as zero, ten times Earth.
There is, by God's swift reckoning
A universe in everything.
-A.M. Sullivan
Stars and atoms have no size,
They only vary in men's eyes.
Men and instruments will blunder
Calculating things of wonder.
A seed is just as huge a world
As any ball the sun has hurled.
Stars are quite as picayune
As any splinter of the moon.
Time is but a vague device;
Space can never be precise;
Stars and atoms have a girth,
Small as zero, ten times Earth.
There is, by God's swift reckoning
A universe in everything.
-A.M. Sullivan
picayune:of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
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