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But ah, the human multitudes that inarched before the flame—
As 'mid the Red Sea's wavy walls the ancient people camel
Behind, the rattling chariots! the Pharaoh of Fire !
The rallying volley' of the ■whips, the jarring of the tire!—
Looked round, and saw the homeless world as dismal as a pyre—
Looked up, and saw God3a blessed B;ue a firmament so dire 1

As in the days of burning Troy, when Virgit's hero fled,
So gray stud trembling pilgrims found some younger feet instead,
That bore them through the wilderness with bold elastic stride,
And Ruth and Rachel, pale and brave, in silence walked beside;
Those Bible girls of Judah’s day did make that day sublime*—
Leave life but them, no other loss can ever bankrupt Time!

Men stood and saw their all caught up in chariots of flame—
No mantle falling from the sky they ever thought to claim,
And empty-handed as the dead, they turned away and smiled,
And bore a stranger's household gods and saved a stranger's child?
What valor brightened into shape, like statues in a hall,
When on their dusky panoply the blazing torches fall,
Stood bravely out, and saw the world spread wings of fiery Sight,
And not a trinket of a star to crown disastered night!
R i; m .-\m in F, T a y l o r .

BILL THE ENGINEER.
^imitate as fleetly as possible the pniTing soimds of a locomotive when it starts.]
Spheee-ee-e hoe— sp h ec-ec- c h o of ’1—
horse moves bis steel-rimmed hoof,
And snorts from his chest his breath of steam,
With a quickening pulse and warning scream,'
Moves out with his freight ot hum?n l;v ^ -
A sinuous chain of humming hives.

Anon the hum is a rattling din,
As the bright steel arms fly out and in,