(@3After the United States had introduced the telegraph.@1) 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!" |