The Microbe
The Microbe
Original Text
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (London: Duckworth, [1896]): 47-48. Internet Archive AVQ-4330
1The Microbe is so very small
2You cannot make him out at all,
3But many sanguine people hope
4To see him through a microscope.
5His jointed tongue that lies beneath
6A hundred curious rows of teeth;
7His seven tufted tails with lots
8Of lovely pink and purple spots,
9On each of which a pattern stands,
10Composed of forty separate bands;
11His eyebrows of a tender green;
12All these have never yet been seen--
13But Scientists, who ought to know,
14Assure us that they must be so ...
15Oh! let us never, never doubt
16What nobody is sure about!
Publication Start Year
1896
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2011
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