AN EXPERIMENT ON A BIRD IN THE AIR PUMP 
After the painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768 
 
   An after dinner port and snuff diversion. 
   This century of "the scientificate" 
   is seriously right-in-front-of-the-children: 
   even a daughter must remark the fate 
 
   of the dove (is it?) perhaps a family pet. 
   What rare conclusions might the magus draw, 
   his fingers God-like on the air inlet, 
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