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It was a man of many parts, / Who in his coffer mind / Had stored the Classics and the Arts / And Sciences combined; / The purest gems of poesy / Came flashing from his pen -- / The wholesome truths of History / He gave his fellow men.
He knew the stars from "Dog" to Mars; / And he could tell you, too, / Their distances -- as though the cars / Had often checked him through -- / And time 'twould take to reach the sun, / Or by the "Milky Way,"
Drop in upon the moon, or run / The homeward trip, or stay.
With Logic at his fingers' ends, / Theology in mind, / He often entertained his friends / Until they died resigned; / And with inquiring mind intent / Upon Alchemic arts / A dynamite experiment -- / A man of many parts!