"Hold infinity in the palm of your hand"

This late afternoon around 6:35, on my way to the eye clinic, I saw a rainbow in the sky. My heart leaping joyfully, I took out the camera and shot several photos. Then in the clinic when reading an article in memory of a professor at NTNU, I came across William Blake's poem. The third line "Hold infinity in the palm of your hand" nowadays can be used to depict what a camera can do. Yes, whenever we take a photo, don't we eternalize the moment?

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake (English poet, 28 Nov. 1757--12 Aug. 1827)

一沙見世界,

一花窥天堂.

手心握无限,

須臾納永恆.

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What a sky!