The Conservative (Lovecraft)/January 1916/Galileo and Swammerdam

One look'd into celestial light,
Saw moon and stars in th'infinite;
Their beauty stirr'd his heart.
The telescope came to his eyes,
And harmonies, set in the skies,
Became of life a part.

The other lov'd the creeping things,
The atoms small, the world of wings,
The puny stir of breath.
The microscope show'd earth at war:
Devouring Nature's doling law;
And his love brought him death.