| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | Wireless | | By Henry Anderson Lafler |
| | | THE HIGH stars glimmer in thine iron net, | |
| And winds go whimpering along its wires; | |
| Vast on the dark thy Titan bulk aspires— | |
| A watcher on a lonely parapet! | |
| And far, from hidden isles in ocean set, | 5 |
| Invisibly, yet thrall to thy desires, | |
| They come, on wings nor storm nor darkness tires— | |
| Words that the far-off hearts of men beget. | |
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| Gaunt harvester of desperate gulfs of night, | |
| Strange winnower in wide dim vales of air, | 10 |
| Wilt thou yet garner by thy mystic might | |
| Some word to still our ancient long despair?— | |
| A whisper from the infinite?—a breath | |
| Caught from the far unfathomed gulf of death? | | | | |
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