A MAN OF MANY PARTS

It was a man of many parts,

Who in his coffer mind

Had stored the Classics and the Arts

And Sciences combined;

The purest gems of poesy

Came flashing from his pen —

The wholesome truths of History

He gave his fellow men.

He knew the stars from “Dog” to Mars;

And he could tell you, too,

Their distances — as though the cars

Had often checked him through —

And time‘ twould take to reach the sun,

Or by the “Milky Way,”

Drop in upon the moon, or run

The homeward trip, or stay.

With Logic at his fingers’ ends,

Theology in mind,

He often entertained his friends

Until they died resigned;

And with inquiring mind intent

Upon Alchemic arts

A dynamite experiment —

A man of many parts!