“When furious up from mines the water pours” [“The Steam Engine”]
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when furious up from mines the water pours
Ths
and clears fr
om rusty moisture all the ores
then may
cloud e
s gather then may
thunder[roar
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flash and
rainmay pour [sigh
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undisturbed the power alone will raise
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water from the engine might nowbe formed a phrase
when as it drags the weight of fragmentlarge
it also drags the weight of smokey barge
called by us steam boat and a steamboat saves
the beings scattered on the furious
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by boilers bursting but a steamboat[can
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be the most useful engine brought[to man
the grinding stones that by its forceare whil
r
led
and by their force the yellow grains[are twirled
Bruised ground and thrown away
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While it doth thunder near the[echoing wall
The whirring wheels arranged in[whirling rows
And on the wheels the spinner ws
cotton
[ throws
Next moves the noisy beam thewheels do whirl
And next the wheels the cotton
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The moving bellows that are made|to roar
By its huge strength that meltthe red hot ore
The copper mines that by it|emptied are
nd their blue metal now isbrought from far
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then it puts forth its power
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the rollers
squeeze
the metal then another partThe regretted ghost
doth seize
the flattened metal quickAnd flies the circle round
And all is stamped at onceBrittannia and the ground
then showers the waterfrom the reserw
vo
ir
and round the town it rush
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then runs to cisterns largeand fills them all
and turns back homewardin quantinty
ty
but small
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then forms the lengthening chainand putting link to link
makes a small chain and
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leaves of that flower the pink
and so I end
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