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By the Author of Spirit of Peers and People , * fyc . Oh , Science ! iron-footed giant ! Whose tread shows hugel y * making pliant Time ' s pavement form'd of sturdy ages ,
Earth soon must cease to pay thee wages ; And , like a vassal , quick , give place , Lest thou should ' &t cant her into space ; For Archimedes hinted once He'd poise and weigh her like an ounce ; Meaning , no doubt , to set the fashion Of making horse-ponds sweat with passion
Oh , Steam ! twin-sister of the black art An infant still who doth not lack-heart , What magic dost thou meditate A gain 81 the people and the state , To set them by the ears together , And toss up labour like a feather ?
The horse , man ' s constant , strongest aid . May now go slumber in the shade ; For lo ! the proverb to reverse , The cart will soon precede the horse , Or bear him , neighing like a fool , To stable , farrier , grass or pool I
The bang-up clubs must soon desist Their style of elbow , whip , and wrist ; Cease punching out a tooth askance . To squirt on turf with nonchalance ; For soon there'll be throughout the land The royal boilers , steam in hand ! The horse shall lounge thro * fields and meadows ,
Thinking of jolly coachey ' s red-nose ; Or stare upon us o ' er a hedge , His mouth half fill'd with flowers and sedge ; While we go boiling , roaring by , Just like a bomb-shell thro * the sky , And only stop to pay the ' pike / For fifty liorse-power , what we like .
Heaven send us opposition soon ! Nought thrives without—earth , sun , or moon : Let some poor engineer , grown prouder , Propose to drive a coach with powder ;
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THE AGE OF STEAM , A HUD 1 RRA 8 T 1 C POEM .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 877, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/59/
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