Sand Grains: Blake’s Universe
[Grains of sand under a light microscope]
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I walk along a tropic beach of sand
And feel the sun’s heat in the grains, wonder
If, counting my whole life, I told them . . . “and
One hundred billion and one” here under
Equator weight of light if I would have the time
To touch them all. And yet I’m told that they
Are fewer, that these grains in every clime
Of our small world, are fewer than the splay
Of stars uncounted in our cosmos. Then
Perhaps if viewed from some enormous space,
These flaming balls would look like beaches, when
From such distance seen. They would be a brace
Of beach grains packed together. From that far
Perspective I now contemplate each star.