Vision

On a sudden I beheld
Long queues of light hanging down the back of Space
From heads hidden in the Fourth Dimension—
Heads, I vow, of the Great Mandarins of some transcosmic China
Who confer eternally, coronerwise, on our smaller destinies.

Benjamin De Casseres

 

Source: The Sun, January 9, 1916, Section 6, p. 11.