86 THE CHEMIST’S LOVE-SONG
For oxidising agents all :
And if my love she were to spurn,
Like tetra-nitro-di-benzal-
Tolu-ethylidene I’d burn.
My heart would break up like the mol-
Ecule of para-toluene-
Diazo-y-amidol-
Hydroxy-tri-mesitylene.