The Engine’s Song

The Engine’s Song
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Through city and forest and held and glen
I rush with the roaring train;
My strength is the strength of a thousand
men
My brain is a master’s brain,

I borrow the senses of him within
Who watches the gleaming line:
His pulses I feel through my frame of
steel
His courage and will are mine

I hear, as I will make upland curve,
The echoing rejoice
To answer the knell of my brazen bell,
The laugh of my giant volee

And, white in the glare of the golden ray
Or red in the furunce light,
My smoke is a pillar of cloud by day,
A pillar of flame by alght