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In the midst of an ominous, foreboding, room,

Beheld a cauldron, filled with gloom

Four elements: fire, water, earth, and air,to mix philosophy with science, one might dare

Originated from earlier crews, 

Egypt, Greece, India, to name a few

Nicholas Flammel, a notable one

Philosopher’s stone, more valued than the sun

What resulted, some may ask

Medicine, chemistry, metallurgy, quite a task

Silver and copper turned into gold,

Is it real? Truths untold

Extending life, curing disease

Medieval medicines were displeased

Sought after was infinite youth,

Researched and worked, nail and tooth

O’er the time, it slowly died, 

For coins were copied, not one abied

Counterfeit ran rampant, money was copied

Now outlawed, alchemy was disembodied.