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VOL. VII No. II ofVnse
NOVEMBER, 1915
THE CONVERSATION
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Man:
YOU then—starting, let us say, with ether—
You would become electrons? out of whirling
Would rise to atoms? then as an atom resting,
Till through Yourself in other atoms moving,
And by the tine affinity of power,
Atom with atom massed, You would go on,
Over the crest of visible forms transformed,
Would be a molecule, a little system
Wherein the atoms move like suns and planets
With satellites, electrons? So, as worlds build
From star-dust, as electron to electron,
The same attraction drawing, molecules
Would wed and pass over the crest again
Of visible forms, lying content as crystals,
Or colloids: ready now to use the gleam
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