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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 15, Issue 788, 19 May 1870, Page 4

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fIJE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPE. .the smooth apd slender wire? The .sleepless heralds run, J?ust as the clear and living rays Qo streaming from the sun. No peals nor flashes, heard or seen, Their wondrous flight betray; And yet their words are strongly felt In cities far away; Is T or summer’s heat, nor winter’s hail Can check their rapid course; They meet unmoved the fierce wind’s rage— The rough wave’s sweeping force: Jn the long night of rain and wrath, As in the blaze of day, They rush, with pews of weal pr wp. To thousands far away. Rut faster still than tidings borne On that electric cord, Jlise the pure tho.ughts of him who love? The Christian’s life and Lord—0f him who taught, in smiles and tears. With fervent lips to pray, Maintains high converse here on earth With bright worlds far away. Ay 1 though no outward wish is breathed Nor outward answer given, The sighing of that humble heart Is known and felt in Heaven r Those long frail wires may bend and break, Those viewless heralds stray; But Faith’s least word shall reach the throne 0f God, though far away. Rev. L G. Lyons, L.L.D.