Chemistry, or no Chemistry: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The tests and lectures of an outrageous teacher,
Or to take arms against a sea of experiments,
And by working end them. To work: to pass;
No more; and by a pass to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural explosions
That chemists are heir to. ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d.
September 1971
