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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STEAM THRESHING-MACHINE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Flush with the pond the lurid furnace burned
Last Line: The endless ladder, and the booming wheel!
Subject(s): Harvest; Machinery And Machinists
First Line: Flush with the pond the lurid furnace burned
Last Line: The endless ladder, and the booming wheel!
Subject(s): Harvest; Machinery And Machinists
Flush with the pond the lurid furnace burned
At eve, while smoke and vapour filled the yard;
The gloomy winter sky was dimly starred,
The fly-wheel with a mellow murmur turned;
While, ever rising on its mystic stair
In the dim light, from secret chambers borne,
The straw of harvest, severed from the corn,
Climbed, and fell over, in the murky air.
I thought of mind and matter, will and law,
And then of him, who set his stately seal
Of Roman words on all the forms he saw
Of old-world husbandry: I could but feel
With what a rich precision he would draw
The endless ladder, and the booming wheel!
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