LOVE, THE INVENTOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9642, 17 January 1903, Page 6 (Supplement)

LOVE, THE INVENTOR.

Clerk Maxwell, mathelnatieian, Burning the midnight oil, Measured the waves of ether By patient, wearying toil; Herz by experiment proved them; Marconi seized the spoil. * * * • » The multitudes hear, and marvel At the wanders that are done. "At last," they cry, "we have found it— A new thing under the' sun!" The Prophet, Poet, and Lover Smile as these babblings run. "Long, long ago," says the Poet, "Soul spake' with kindred soul; A synip*atliy of spirit Joined and informed the whole True band, though ages severed, And the width of pole to pole," "Aeons ere then," says the Prophet, "It was known to the chosen few How from the Great Transmitter ' The thought-waves spread and grew, Bearing some glowing message Which none but Receivers kneW. '■And ages before," says the Lover, t "Heart talked with loving heart In a strange, mysterious language No linguist could impart, Though prison walls might sever, And rolling seas might part. . "Ay! The waves of ardent passion That know nor check nor bar, Bom of the Lover's yearning, Have travelled fast and far. From earth to ice-cold planet, From burning star to star." Thus sprang the etheric message From fiery souls, compact, Of warm imagination, Ere the Thinker's brain was racked, Or the slow experimenter Shaped theory into fact. • * * * • Mighty and great is Science Though her ways tire cold and long; To Fancy and Inspiration Transcendent powers belong; But Love is the .true Revetder, : And is strongest of the strorig. —Frqm Heather and Fern, by J. L. Kelly.