The Sheep Look Up
“’Mid fume and reekThat caused unmanly Tears to lave my cheek,Black-vis’d as Moors from soil, and huge of thew,The Founders led me ever onward throughTh’ intolerable Mirk. The furnace SpireThey broach’d, and came a sudden gout of FireThat leach’d the precious Water from my corseAnd strain’d my Vision with such awful forceIt seem’d I oped my eyes to tropic SunOr lightning riving Midnight’s dismal dun,Or stood amaz’d by mighty Hekla’s pit.I marvel’d how Man, by his GOD-sent wit,Thus tam’d the sala...mander ElementAnd loos’d the Metal in the mountain pentTo make us Saws, and Shears, and useful Plows,Swords for our hands, and Helmets for our brows,The surgeon’s Scalpel, vehicle of Health,And all our humble Tools for gaining wealth ...—“De Arte Munificente,” Seventeenth centurySTANDSTILL... unanimously ascribed to fear of Trainite atrocities by traffic experts across the nation. In many places the car-per-hour count was the lowest for thirty years. Those who did venture out this Labor Day often did not meet with the welcome they expected.MoreLess
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