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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE 'CLERMONT', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack
Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow.
Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean
First Line: A roar of smoke from the iron stack
Last Line: For all the fleets of the world to follow.
Subject(s): Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); New York City; Rivers; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean
A ROAR of smoke from the iron stack
That frights the ghosts of the haunted Hollow;
A churn of foam, and a broadening track
For all the fleets of the world to follow.
She asks no aid of the swollen sail;
Her engines pant and her timbers quiver;
She lifts her bows to the northern gale
And breasts the tide of the lordly river.
The round-eyed host at his tavern door
Lets fall the pipe and the frothing flagon;
The brown-winged sloops of the Tappan shore
Make frightened way for the snorting dragon.
The scythe-men group and the binders flock
To gaze in awe at the floating wonder;
The red deer stamps on the basalt rock
And bounds away to the Hill of Thunder.
A fabled road to the far Cathay
Old Hudson sought through our western Highlands;
But here's the key to a shorter way
Through all the seas to the farthest islands.
The Craftsman's hand and the Thinker's dream
Shall bind the lands with a shortening tether;
The wit of Man and the might of Steam
Shall draw the rims of the world together.
A roar of smoke from her iron stack
That frights old ghosts from the haunted Hollow;
A churn of foam, and a broadening track
For all the fleets of the world to follow.
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