THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2014, 18 June 1875, Page 2

THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT.

After Mr Severn's lecture last night, a youth who, .for ought we know, may have been' like him of whom Longfellow speaks of a» " light-hearted and content," was obobservpd to be wandering—"not through tho world," but through Owen street, his eye in a fine frenzy rolling, and "ever and anon," as novel writers say, he stopped to record the results of his momentary fits of inspiration on a somewhat dirty iriece of paper. Out of curiosity we.followed, and saw him, apparently in disgust, throw awny the piece of "Paper and walk quickly away '■':■'{"• we! picked up the MSS and discovered the following lines, which, though not Tyrtcean. in"tho effect produced on us, were doubtlofS intended to be" so "on her for wlionT they" "were originally destined. Suppressing tho namo of the fair one, we give them as far as they go, wishing the would-be poet better luck after his next visit to Mr Severn's very'interesting lectures." Any ono^who was present last night may, be able to understandtbe "allusions." Though addressed to 's eyes ; the writer not' being a-sailor abstained from the epithet "DearY '-^ • \'■ -„■ ij.

To 's Etes. 0 losaefl'is'my'BOul with conflicting emotion* As I think of thq form on my lioirt now impressed, Which radiates light from the'deaths of the oceans ' " Of We, which refracts liro' tho lcnsiii my breast. > The loto which I heard when first gazing \ upon Thee Increased fast each second from boats 32, Till it.swolJcd-to red heat at 400 bf_bi!lions, - Nor stopped its swift progress at violetM bright hue. : ' 1 ne'er-can believe in " undulations" theory When gazing "with rapture oh thine orbs so bright, , , Bub still believe firmly in Newton's EmiseioD, - Aad T. YovNa was wrong and "La PliCB j . was right.

The ligbfc of my Bun comes through thine eyes' bright prisms, ' " "'"•l Which reflect—n« ! refract —lights of xm.\ surpasseel shade,"' ' ' ! More lovelj than those which cost Seventy Guineas," " , ■ '•• ■- ', 'And from flint glass by Browning of London " were made. '-, r .' \ t And there deep in heart dwell* (.he loveliest Spectrum, - - — { That jsyer yet gleamed forth on. mortal man's sight, '• ' Unequalled by far, by that which is reflected On a screen, by the Oxygen-Hydrogen light. Tho' Severn, with a 50 cell electric battery,; -Can floods of bright light on his audience roll. ,- ;

His battery's beat, tho' ne'er shown in. this - Colony,' - . - • 'By tldne eyes which illumine the depth of ,_" th« boul -' 'Tis true, as he says, after 800 billions '" \ Of vibrations per second, light no longer we see, - ." " ':'''' '- ' For- in spite of all Prisms, Reflections, andJLenses, _ ',\ ,/.-" • '' '. All its beams arc Befracted to settle in ilieei