A Bit of Science + 

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’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? + 