Sonnet on a Benzene Ring 0 graceful, resonant benzene, more steadfast thou art Than all thy basely horn atoms and bonds c and r. Boundless joys have thy by-products given; they impart Aesthetic order to systems lost. Mollify My crude existence, 0 benzene. Prove not to depart, Dear ringed companion, from those predictions which deny Thy having two C junctures of unlike aspect; my he& Would fain suffer mother twist of theory unverified. Pave the way instead for new, extended Pillars of Hercules. Henceforth may resonance hybrids Be thy progeny and naught by free i s thy bread, Whereupon, impregnated with graceful hipyramids They will pay bareheaded homage to him who has bled; Thou, 0 noble benzene, thy structure undid.
Volume 43, Number 3, March 1966
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