Volume 61 — EPIGRAMS.
Reading edition
Bait, hook, and hair, are used by angler fine; Emma’s bright hair alone were bait, hook, line.
Faraday was the first to elicit the electric spark from the magnet; he found that it is visible at the instants of breaking and of renewing the contact of the conducting wires; and only then.
Around the magnet, Faraday Is sure that Volta’s lightnings play; But how to draw them from the wire? He took a lesson from the heart: ’Tis when we meet, ’tis when we part, Breaks forth the electric fire. M.