We Thought We Had Fire Figured Out

[dukealien]

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'Then it turned out by learning
of lights without burning
exciting new processes grew ~'



The metre here reminds me of poems of Banjo Patterson - Clancy of the Overflow, The bush christening - not quite the same though. It will bug me until I can find it, now.

Thanks for the read.

Wasn't channeling them specifically, but... Robert Service or Kipling?

Within the same time frame I guess

Seriocomic with polysyllabic feet, that era - the patter lyrics of W.S. Gilbert, too.  But not Matthew Arnold, or not very much of him.