Mirror of Literature,  10 (1827), 308–09.

A Retrospect

Anon

Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Electricity


    The poet reflects wistfully on his early youth: 'My kite—how fast and fair it flew! / Whilst I, a sort of Franklin, drew / My pleasure from the sky!' (308).



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