You must get up all the germs and the new-notation terms
Of everything you see.
You must learn about the daisies, and cram botanic phrases
On every flower you find.
If you’ve only got a smattering, be everlasting chattering
To expose your “cultured mind.”
And every one shall say, as you walk your mystic way,
“If this young man converses in terms that are far too deep for me,
Why, what a pharmaceutically-deep young man, then, this young man must be.”
Be sure you never praise those very ancient days