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VISTAS OF LABOR: 1. THE STEAMSHIP STOKER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweat-drenched, and blinded by the heat, he reels
Last Line: The seeming dead grow light and labor-strong!
Subject(s): Eyes; Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Soul; Paradise; Work; Workers


SWEAT-DRENCHED, and blinded by the heat, he reels
Back from the furnace, crawls on deck to win
A cooling breath or two, ere plunging down
Into his torture-house of Steam.
In truth,
He earns his heaven, for, fierce hour by hour,
He knows the bitterness and bite of hell.
What more could heaven do for any soul
Than fan a burning brow with airs as bland
As those of Arcady, and soothe the eyes
With touch of winsome waters, at whose call
The seeming dead grow light and labor-strong!





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