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Animalcules

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek found
"Animalcules" by accident,
Looking through a lens he had ground -
A microscope he did invent.
Whatever substance he looked at,
Microorganisms lived there.
Even his teeth were habitat
For tiny creatures ev'rywhere.
Excited, he wrote letters to
Elite scientists of his day,
With more important stuff to do,
So interest in this went away.

Tiz true for most of humankind -
What's out of sight tiz out of mind.