[Professor Huxley, at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society, suggested that in the future imaginative speaking at their dinners might be stimulated by the drinking of liquid oxygen, bien frappé.]
Air—"Take hence the Bowl!"
Take hence the bowl; though beaming
Brightly as bowl e'er shone,
With Fizz sublimely creaming,
Or Port or Zoedone.
There is a new potation
To warm the hearts of men,
And wake imagination—
In Liquid Oxygen!