The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
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I made one of the crowd at the last Mechanics' Fair, and, with the rest, stood gazing in wonder at a perfect machine, with its soul of fire, itsboiler-heart that sent the hot blood pulsing along the iron arteries, and its thews of steel. And while I was admiring the adaptation of meansto end, the harmonious involutions of contrivance, and thenever-bewildered complexity, I saw a grimed and greasy fellow, theimperious engine's lackey and drudge, whose sole office was to let fall, at intervals, a ...drop or two of oil upon a certain joint. Then my soulsaid within me, See there a piece of mechanism to which that other youmarvel at is but as the rude first effort of a child, --a force which notmerely suffices to set a few wheels in motion, but which can send animpulse all through the infinite future, --a contrivance, not for turningout pins, or stitching button-holes, but for making Hamlets and Lears. And yet this thing of iron shall be housed, waited on, guarded from rustand dust, and it shall be a crime but so much as to scratch it with apin; while the other, with its fire of God in it, shall be buffetedhither and thither, and finally sent carefully a thousand miles to bethe target for a Mexican cannon-ball.
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