“We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.”

—  Ogden Nash

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Watched Example Never Boils

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American poet 1902–1971

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