New England Diary

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'Palsy to the land'

"It is a universal network

Written across the sky,

Cut in swaths through the woods,

Amplified in cages

Marked 'High Voltage'. Its agitation

Planted from pole to pole

Gives palsy to the land.''

 

-- From "High Tension Wires,'' by the late Allan Block, of Francestown, N.H.