NOTES AND QUERIES. 197 
Wir anp Humour.—The following appeared in “Scribner’s 
Monthly,” for Noy., 1879, and was republished in “ Nature,” in 
Dec. of the same year :— 
A” MIGROSCOPIC SERENADE: 
COME, my love, and seek with me, 
A realm by grosser eye unseen, 
Where fairer forms will welcome thee, 
And dainty creatures hail thee queen. 
In silent pools the tube I'll ply, 
Where green Conferva-thread lies curled, 
And proudly bring to thy bright eye 
The trophies of the Protist world. 
We'll rouse the Stentor from his lair, 
And gaze into the Cyclops’ eye; 
In Chara and Nitella hair 
The protoplasmic stream descry, 
Forever weaving to and fro 
With faint molecular melody ; 
And curious Rotifers I'll show, 
And graceful Vorticellidz. 
Where Melicerte ply their craft, 
We'll watch the playful water-bear, 
And no envenomed Hydra’s shaft 
Shall mar our peaceful pleasure there ; 
But while we whisper love’s sweet tale 
We'll trace with sympathetic art, 
Within the embryonic snail 
The growing rudimental heart. 
Where rolls the Volvox sphere of green, 
And plastids move in Brownian dance,— 
If, wandering ’mid that gentle scene, 
Two fond Amcebze shall perchance 
Be changed to one beneath our sight 
By process of biocrasis, 
We'll recognise, with rare delight, 
A type of our prospective bliss. 
O dearer thou by far to me 
In thy sweet maidenly estate 
Than any seventy-fifth could be, 
Of aperture however great! 
Come, go with me, and we will stray, 
Through realms by grosser eye unseen, 
Where Protophytes shall homage pay, 
And Protozoa hail thee queen. 
Jacop F, HENRICI 
