THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.
A Rontgen Ray went roaming As Rontgen Rays will do, And. flashing light where erst was night. The hidden brought to view. Its powers of penetration Were freely given play, (In darkest nooks a tube of Crookes’ Will guide the Rontgen Ray).
The camera fiend waxed festive, And blithe of heart was he ; In his mental eye were snapshots by The New Photography ; For the scientists had captured That little Rontgen Ray, Whose doom was to illume A scientist’s holiday.
Whether cased in toughened timber, Or flesh and blood, or stone, All mysteries sealed the Ray revealed— Save one dark doubt alone : It couldn’t pierce the padding Of a typical coryphee, And how far each limb is (whisper it 1) slim The scientists cannot say.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXII, 30 May 1896, Page 646
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129THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXII, 30 May 1896, Page 646
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