These verses on the locomotive are from the New York _Christian
Advocate_:
Steed, with the heart of fire! Steed, with the sinews of steel!
Full-blooded courser, careering onward, with rail and with wheel;
Black with fuliginous breathing--panting of wo and of weal.
Firm be his muscle who mounts thee, clear and true be his eye;
Generous his heart with compassion, willing if need be to die,
Who sets thy hot blood a-dancing, and forces thy clarion cry!
For he reins a mightier stallion--a swifter creature of awe,
Stronger and darker and wilder than the old Arabian saw--
His neck clothed with the thunder, and ravin and rage his law!
Like a planet out of its orbit he moves when he leaps his rail:
Hold him and guide him, O rider! thy purpose he will not fail;
But loose him, and man lies groaning, and women and children wail.
O mighty creature of commerce! That bringest the world its bread,
And bearest the journeying peoples with limbs of thunder and dread,
To thee my life is committed, and safely let me be sped!
Thou steed of fire and of iron, that bearest me on my way,
Is life or death in thy destined course, is rapture or sorrow--say?
O Christ of God, hold the driving-rod, and mount this steed to-day!
(2417)
=Power from God=--See SPRINGS FROM GOD.