Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JAPAN - ABOUT 1877, by JACK MERTEN


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JAPAN - ABOUT 1877, by                    
First Line: Bewildered blue dragon-flies
Last Line: "hail, columbia!"
Subject(s): Inventions And Inventors; Music & Musicians; Printing And Printers; Telegraph; Telegrams


(After the United States had introduced the telegraph.)

BEWILDERED blue dragon-flies,
Needle-bodied and round-headed,
Swarm about the new-stretched telegraph wires
And balance there, heads down, tails up, in amazement;
Like notes they perch upon a music staft
Printed against the white dawn's vellum page,
As you, musician, read the song they score:
"Hail, Columbia!"





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