written by Lucretius, who is still almost a boy?: “‘No single thing abides, but all things flow, Fragment to fragment clings; the things that grow Until we know and name them, By degrees They meet and are no more the things we know. Thou, too; O Earth—thine empires, lands and seas— Least with thy stars of all the galaxies, Globed from the drift like these, like these thou too Shalt go. Thou art going, hour by hour, like these. Globed from the atoms, falling slow or swift, I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms, and even the systems and their suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal
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Here poor misguided Caldwell tries to show the father of modern physics as a believer--in truth, this poem shows the opposite.
