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IN THE TRAIN.
With its precious human freight
Barred and linked in long array,
Slowly moves the ponderous weight,
Smoothly glides away.
Barred and linked in long array,
Slowly moves the ponderous weight,
Smoothly glides away.
Quickened puff and playing stroke
Find the narrow ledges true,
Over fields the torn white smoke
Lingers into dew.
Find the narrow ledges true,
Over fields the torn white smoke
Lingers into dew.
Swiftly with dismaying shriek
Down through cavern gloom we roll,
Forth in laughing daylight break,
Onward to the goal.
Down through cavern gloom we roll,
Forth in laughing daylight break,
Onward to the goal.
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Through the mountain's rocky heart,
Over champaign richly spread,
'Thwart the flood, the chasm, we dart,
Distant streets to tread.
Over champaign richly spread,
'Thwart the flood, the chasm, we dart,
Distant streets to tread.
Lender, not antagonist,
Nature claims this force as hers,—
But, the strict conditions missed,
Jealously demurs.
Nature claims this force as hers,—
But, the strict conditions missed,
Jealously demurs.
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