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poem anonymous, from "Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes"

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Click ! click ! click ! and the clattering tongue of brass
Seems alive as I listen and hear the signals pass ;
Many a wonderful message goes flashing along the wire
With words of joyful greeting or a tale of calamity dire.

Travels the spark electric over mountain, and valley, and hill,
Under the deep-flowing river, over the rippling rill.
Hark to the message flashing through the crystal air of morn,
"Unto us a son is given, an immortal soul is born."

Click ! click ! click ! and the mystical wires again
Are telling another story unto the children of men ;
"Masseltof, greeting we send you, may your happiness lasting be,
Your wedded life be joyful, your path from care be free."

And yet another message is mournfully flashing by
As only the lightning travels or evil tidings fly ;
Imagine the heart's emotion as the sorrowful missive is read,
"A soul has returned to its Maker, your darling mother is dead."

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released October 27, 2021

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Music for the science fiction literature history podcast Chrononauts. Listen to us at anchor.fm/chrononauts

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