A Universe of atoms in the void:
Some Greeks had tried, but could not make it stick.
And it’s a fact I often have enjoyed:
A sober English Quaker did the trick.
That gas was particles bouncing around
In space, some others had begun to say;
But liquids, even solids? Yes! You found
The model could be driven all the way.
The Bible says the blind shall see; the dumb
Shall sing in joy. Well, color-blind were you,
And inarticulate. Your life sounds glum:
You never married, and your friends were few.
Yet soaring thoughts bring joy, and you had ears
To hear the truth across two thousand years.