Little things that run the world

On insects, entomology and life

….the flowery leaf
wants not its soft inhabitants. The stone,
hard as it is, in every winding pore
holds multitudes. But chief the forest-boughs,
which dance unnumber'd to th' inspiring breeze

….even animals subsist
On animals, in infinite descent;
And all so fine adjusted, that the loss
Of the least species would disturb the whole.