Two camels
G. Bantock
Once I saw a chemist take a pinch of powder
Simple dust it seemed and half-unstop a phial:
Out dropped harmless dew. " Mixed nothings make" quoth he
"Something!" So they did: a thunderclap, but louder
Lightning-flash, but fiercer put spectators' nerves to trial:
Sure enough, we learned what was, imagined what might be.
Had I no experience how a lip's mere tremble,
Look's half hesitation, cheek's just change of color,
These effect a heartquake, how should I conceive
What a heaven there may be? Let it but resemble
Earth myself have known! No bliss that' s finer, fuller,
Only bliss that lasts, they say, and fain would I believe.