The question that the Fun editor hath sparked through Atlantic cable
To W..T W..TM..N, the speaker of the password 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;
If indeed it ever was, which is exactly the point in question.