 | The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe |  |
THE POWER-PRESS.
Strange is the sound when first the notes beginWhere human voices blend with Vulcan's din;
The click, the clank, the clangor, and the sound
Of rattling rollers in their rapid round;
The whizzing belt, the sharp metallic jar,
Like clashing spears in fierce chivalric war;
The whispering birth of myriad flying leaves,
Gathered, anon, in countless motley sheaves,
Then scattered far, as on the wingéd wind,
The mortal nurture of th' immortal mind!
| The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe | |