A third of the way through The Strangest ManGraham Farmelo quotes a few stanzas from a poem that currently resides inthe Cavendish Laboratory Archive at Cambridge University.

O hear the sad petition we electrons make to you

To free us from the dominion of the hated quantum view

For we are all abandoned to its dread uncertainty,

Except by you, our champion. O we pray you, set us free!

Once in a pleasant order, our smooth-flowing time was spent.

As the classical equations told us where to go, we went...