HIST 17

But little in his ditty indicates periodicity.

Alberto Cavaliere's book, some years before, in Italy,

Put chemistry more accurate in verse, but just as wittily.

Frank Gucker was the model of a modern doctor chemical,

And built machines about which I've waxed lyric and polemical,

The newer ones make measurements of cells stained with fluorescent

dyes ... escent dyes, escent dyes, ...Aha!

In rooms in which it's just as dark as when the lunar crescent dies.

What better place is there for songs, especially the secular,

Than New Orleans? I'll sing a few, atomic and molecular,

I'll be an unconventioneer, but nonetheless dress snazzily,

And maybe even try to update Lehrer's song more jazzily!