6 OCTOBER 2001, Page 70

Amor Scientiae

Ammo, a mass of Bunsen burners raised Above a mat, gas fire's blue-flamed salute A welcome into science; feeling praised, The classics left, a willing new recruit, I watched the windows watching me, the blank White open windows of the science lab, Exposing hotter flames; the guilt I shrank From burned like acid on its marble slab.

N. S. Thompson