Answer in precise terms of barbaric vagueness

The question that the Fun editor hath sparked through Atlantic cable

To W..T W..TM.N, the speaker of the pass-word primeval;

The signaller of the signal of democracy;

The seer and hearer of things in general;

The poet translucent; fleshy, disorderly, sensually inclined;

Each tag and part of whom is a miracle.

(Thirteen pages of MS. relating to Mr. W..t W..tm.n are here omitted.)

Rhapsodically state the fact that is and is not;

That is not, being past; that is, being eternal;