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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STEAM THRESHING-MACHINE (CONTINUED), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: Did any seer of ancient time forebode
Last Line: Low-booming with the prophecy of steam!
Subject(s): Harvest; Machinery And Machinists
First Line: Did any seer of ancient time forebode
Last Line: Low-booming with the prophecy of steam!
Subject(s): Harvest; Machinery And Machinists
Did any seer of ancient time forebode
This mighty engine, which we daily see
Accepting our full harvests, like a god,
With clouds about his shoulders, - it might be
Some poet-husbandman, some lord of verse,
Old Hesiod, or the wizard Mantuan
Who catalogued in rich hexameters
The Rake, the Roller, and the mystic Van:
Or else some priest of Ceres, it might seem,
Who witnessed, as he trod the silent fane,
The notes and auguries of coming change,
Of other ministrants in shrine and grange, -
The sweating statute, and her sacred wain
Low-booming with the prophecy of steam!
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