Classic Poem

‘I've an idea!’ cried someone long ago
In liveliest monkey-language. What he thought
Caused chatter. What it was we do not know.
But this was the earliest ape on earth who brought
Experimental notions into play:
Nature ignored him, as she does to-day.

When Man's at last learnt how to make his mind,
Nature may listen to thought and serve its needs.
Meanwhile where Babels once were built we find
A spider in his web among the weeds.