Wireless

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HAVE you ever in deep meditation sat down by the
     hearth in your home
And telegraphed back to your childhood, to the scenes that
     are never outgrown
In your mind--in those cells called subconscious, those
     marvels in mystery's web
That are timed to the touch of the Artist, contained in the
     house of the head?

This ingenious, this wireless battery, responsive to every
     thought-call,
In a moment is over the ocean and tracing the old Chinese
     Wall;
In a moment is up in the Arctic and watching the seals in
     their play
And then as a wireless message, to the Antarctic haunts,
     flies away.

A "code" quite your own is this mystery, with pages and
     volumes in print
Which none but your key may interpret, pronounced as an
     arrow of flint;
Complete in identities carving and yet with a wireless wave,
It ripples through sunbeams from Heaven, to our "port"
     from its dawn to its grave.

It may dance on the lawn with the fairies; the world with its
     natural eye
May never observe the fair picture, let down from a wireless sky,
But the grass-blades are kissed by the dewdrops; with nectar
     their joy-cups fill;
All aglow with the beams of the morning, when the rays may
     stream down o'er the hill.

Wave-motions that dance on the ether convey in a manner
     sublime
Through wireless, the Faith Meditations, through the spark
     from the Portal Divine,
To the Captains, the Lords and the Peasants--each life its
     identified scroll,
And the Power House ticks off its message, to the Brain and
     the Heart and the Soul.
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