THE WAIL OF THE WIRE.
(With apologies to the Poet.)
"It is stated that Mr. Swinburne's new poem was cabled to New York."
Had I wist, wailed the wire in sea's hollow,
That thousands of lines I should list,
Pumped forth by a son of Apollo,
I would not have lain here, not I,
'Twixt Briton and Yankee a tie:
No messages through me should fly,