“There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium

And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,

And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium

And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium

And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (new breath needed!)

And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

“There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium

And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium

And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,

And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

“Isn’t that interesting?

I knew you would.

I hope you’re all taking notes, because there’s gonna be a short quizz next period.

“There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium

And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium

And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,

Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and caesium

And lead, praseodymium, platinum, plutonium,

Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,

Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,

And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. (breath in again!!)

“There’s sulphur, californium and fermium, berkelium

And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium

And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium

And chlorine, cobalt, carbon, copper,

Tungsten, tin and sodium.

“These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,

And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.”

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