The laws of Optics, Peptics, Music, Cooking—

Master of the Piano—and the Pan—

As busy with the kitchen as the skies!

Now looking

At some rich stew thro' Galileo's eyes,—

Or boiling eggs—timed to a metronome—

As much at home

In spectacles as in mere isinglass—

In the art of frying brown—as a digression

On music and poetical expression,