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