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There was a youthful genius once, a boy of thirteen years, / Named Cyrus Franklin Edison Lavoisier De Squeers. / To study he was not inclined, for fun he had a bent; / But there was just one article he wanted to invent.
"It's a sort of a contraption which will work itself," he said, / "And, without studying, will put my lessons in my head. " / He thought and puzzled o'er his plan, he worked with might and main / To utilize the wondrous schemes within his fertile brain: