Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


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THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by                    
First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell
Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros


He Speaks:
"My girl," quoth he, "I feel each cell
Of all my being towards you swell;
These cells, you know, make up the tissue
That vibrates with each latest issue.

"That vital energy which fills
These cells, gives strange and wondrous thrills;
This energy is said to be
The substance of the graces three.

"This energy—life universal
Condensed from nothing—has rehearsal
In concrete lives, by heat electric,
In waves invisible but hectic.

"That your vibrations harmonize
With mine, I read in violet eyes;
Color and light are nature's rhythm;
Sphere-music old is scarcely with 'em.

"To think, your atoms charged have whirled
Through space until the insensate world,
Condensed, such treasure could receive!
O Æons lost we can't retrieve!

"And only now I find you here;
So young, so old, so ever dear;
But still I always felt you coming,
Through galaxies of stars a-humming."

She Speaks:
"Yes, dear, I've had my share of trouble,
Working through world-dust full of rubble;
'Gainst Mars and many moons a-bumping;
At last upon this globe down-plumping.

"Through all I felt your vital force
That drew me to its nearing source;
I knew this involuting notion,
Condensed by vibratory motion,

"Concentrates in the heart's fine cells
Till they become emotion's wells.
Then evolution's working power
Develops lives of perfect flower.

"Our lives concentric thus shall fill
Thought-pulses of the rhythmic will."
He caught her in his arms' vibrations,
All wrapped in tangled concentrations,

Like wires in spiral circles bound;
Then, lines of least resistance found,
In scarlet lips evolved the blisses
Of true magno-electric kisses.

Rejoice, Dan Cupid! you're not in it,
For science changes every minute;
Nature unwound her spiral force;
Currents reversed for their divorce.





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