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    And by a curious housewifery , Of ounces doled out by degree , Make a huge frog-shaped , box to hop . Or jerk us on , with popf pop ! pop ! Let tunnels vast roll far away .

    Like serpents dead in mail'd array ; And places in the mouth being ta ' en Strong wall'd behind with iron screen . Loose a strong blast and whirl us on Like small-shot thro' dire Perkia * gun , Till bodies travel , at a glance , Like th * eye thro' telescope , to France

    One hundred years , or less , may show A twin-born miracle , I trow , T Proving what offspring , ' clepM sublime , Strong science can b ^ get on time : A ship i' the air , or rather say , A caravan to fly away , By large balloons whipt off its mound ,

    Light as a sparrow leaves the ground , With passengers and merchandise To foreign cities thro * the skies ; Shap'd like a huge Otyrhpkti eagle , Or huge Brobdignagian sea-gull . Whose well-oil'd iron wings and vto&i tail

    Shall soar ini s 6 dfh o er those who hoist Sail , With chimney ' s thro&t high foUnt&ihitig , Clouds on the clouds o'erfriountaihing ; And those who flout thifc fieeniing joke , Could they from out theif old graves Jook , Will see their grandsons , some years hence , Flying to France for eighteen-pence !

    The aits of wttr by land and sea , Bombardment arid artillery ; Ploughing , manuring , hariowing , sowing * , Eeaping and thrashing , stacking , mowing , Grinding and pressing , spinning , weaving , Building and boring , sawing , heaving ;

    Shoes , hats , all wood-work , cooking , baking , Coat and unmentiojiahte making-, Dancing and drawing , and street-preaching , And ' unknown tongoeft' profoundly teaching ; All these and more shall soon give place , Nor look Steam-science in the face * Tradesmen and crfcfta-men Wfe shall meet , Like 'half starv'd card ' ners \ in the street , With wives and children howling ballads Of cold misfortune ' s * 6 ur Ballads : These shall join chorus , and with yell Pray to postp < me all eleam for h—1 ,

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    878 The Age of Steam .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1834, page 878, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2640/page/60/