Versos English Ambrose Bierce A BIT OF SCIENCE.

English poem

A BIT OF SCIENCE.

by (1842–1914)

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What! photograph in colors?‘ Tis a dream And he who dreams it is not overwise, If colors are vibration they but seem, And have no being. But if Tyndall lies, Why, come, then — photograph my lady's eyes. Nay, friend, you can n't; the splendor of their blue, As on my own beclouded orbs they rest, To naught but vibratory motion's due, As heart, head, limbs and all I am attest. How could her eyes, at rest themselves, be making In me so uncontrollable a shaking?