What is the title of the Ethel Romig Fuller Poem that begins ... "If
radio's slim fingers ..."?

Thank You!

This poem is published under various titles on different websites,
which leads me to believe that the author herself did not give it a
title. Here are three titles under which I found the poem online:

"Prayer"

http://www.lifebridgechristian.org/prayer.htm

"God Hears Prayer"

http://www.clarion-call.org/prayer/viewpnt.html#18

"It's No Wonder"

http://bjscloset.bravepages.com/thought.html

I'll post this as a comment as I cannot corroborate it (unless you are
willing to accept it). It may be "Prayer and Radio". It is called this
on a web site which has been changed since it was indexed.

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?advanced=1&cat=web&cs=utf-8&type=phrase&q=if+radio%27s+slim+fingers&jsact=&l=pref&ics=utf-8&cs=utf-8&wf%5Bn%5D=3&wf%5B0%5D%5Br%5D=%2B&wf%5B0%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B0%5D%5Bw%5D=&wf%5B1%5D%5Br%5D=-&wf%5B1%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B1%5D%5Bw%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Br%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Bq%5D=&wf%5B2%5D%5Bw%5D=&dincl=&dexcl=&geo=&limip=&doctype=&dfr%5Bd%5D=1&dfr%5Bm%5D=1&dfr%5By%5D=1980&dto%5Bd%5D=5
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Third wed site listed is a link to this site:
www.winderfirstumc.com/news.htm The extract is "PRAYER AND RADIO by
Ethel Romig Fuller If radio’s slim fingers Can pluck a melody From
night and toss it over A continent or sea; If songs ..."

If the link does not work go to http://www.alltheweb.com/ and search
the phrase If radio’s slim fingers.
answerfinder-ga

A search for

Ethel Romig Fuller radio's fingers

yields six results:

Prayer
http://www.lifebridgechristian.org/prayer.htm

Words To Live By
http://members.tripod.com/Aunt_Sadie/wordsto.htm

thought
http://bjscloset.bravepages.com/thought.html

thought. 
http://www.geocities.com/britiz/thought.html

HISTORY OF FIRST METHODIST CHURCH - FOURTH QUARTER CENTURY
http://www.1stumc-wichita.org/around_the_church/history/
concise/quarter_4/1st_Church_History_4Q.html

Is It So Strange
http://home.earthlink.net/~singingsky/is_it_so_strange.htm


The last gives the poem's title.


IS IT SO STRANGE?

If radio's slim fingers
Can pluck a melody
From night and toss it over
A continent or sea;
If the petaled white notes
Of a violin
Are blown across a mountain
Or a city's din;
If songs, like crimson roses,
Are culled from thin, blue air,
Why should mortals wonder
If God hears prayer?

Ethel Romig Fuller

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

OREGON STATE POETRY ASSOCIATION
http://www.oregonpoets.org/History.html

"In April, 1956, charter members of Verseweavers met at the home of
Edith Bennett Noll to organize OSPA. A constitution and by-laws were
drawn up by Eloise Hamilton, Courtland and Eleanor Matthews, Anna Holm
Pogue, and Laurence Pratt. In 1957, OSPA's Ethel Romig Fuller, poetry
editor of The Oregonian, was named Oregon's first woman poet
laureate."

 
OREGON CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION
The Literary Map
Map of West Portland Writers
http://www.ochcom.org/map.html

"8. Ethel Romig Fuller (1883-1965) Poet, poetry editor of The
Oregonian for over twenty-five years, and Oregon's poet laureate from
1957 to 1965, lived at 730 SW ST. CLAIR AVENUE..."

If I find further evidence to substantiate the title, I'll post this
as an answer with the corroboration.

hlabadie-ga