Note 27 — SECTION V. THE VALUE OF HIS DISCOVERIES.
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I am indebted to Sir Charles Wheatstone for the following impromptu by Herbert Mayo:—
"Around the magnet Faraday Was sure that Volta's lightnings play: But how to draw them from the wire? He drew a lesson from the heart: 'Tis when we meet, 'tis when we part, Breaks forth the electric fire."