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Eyeing the moon,
‘Twould seem you’d walk there
In an afternoon!
Line 21: “Yes, and with lenses like it,”
Line 22: “Eyeing the moon,”
Line 23: “‘Twould seem you’d walk there”
Line 24: “In an afternoon!”
Summary of Stanza 6
“Yes, and with lenses like it,”
(The speaker expands the idea from magnifying glasses to larger optical instruments.)
“Eyeing the moon,”
(Lenses can be used to observe the Moon.)
“‘Twould seem you’d walk there”
(The Moon can appear astonishingly close.)
“In an afternoon!”
(The poem ends with imaginative excitement about reaching a distant celestial body.)
Overall meaning: The poem expands from a hand lens to larger lenses and imagines the Moon brought visually close.
