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Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, / What will result from compounding / Fluids or solids.
And who can tell / How men and women will interact / On each other, or what children will result?
There were Benjamin Pantier and his wife, / Good in themselves, but evil toward each other:
He oxygen, she hydrogen, / Their son, a devastating fire.
I Trainor, the druggist, a miser of chemicals, / Killed while making an experiment, / Lived unwedded.