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Book: Songs of the Rail (1878)

"Blood On The Wheel" is missing from this book, you can find it in the
"The Two Angels" (1875) on the authors page or in the Volume section of this application.

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  • To My Readers
    A worker on the rail, where, day by day,
    The engine storms along,
    76 lines
  • A Song For My Fellows
    "Ambos oder Hammer sein."
    --\Goethe\
    82 lines
  • Old Wylie's Stone
    You want to see Wylie's stone--look here;
    But stop where you are till the line is clear;
    52 lines
  • City And Village
    Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din,
    Stand I, while, as sinks a leaf when left by the uncertain wind,
    88 lines
  • The Brown Giant
    Hurrah for this rough brown giant of ours!
    He stood by the side of God
    160 lines
  • Behind Time
    "More coal, Bill," he said, and he held his watch to the light of the glowing fire;
    "We are now an hour and a half behind time, and I know that my four month
    44 lines
  • The Wires
    I lay beneath the long slim wires,
    And heard them murmur like desires,
    91 lines
  • The First-Foot
    Bright the firelight touch'd his portrait hanging on our humble wall,
    But a sweeter light was in us, with a deeper, purer glow--
    52 lines
  • The Gods And The Winds
    The still gods, though they move apart
    From interchange of thoughts with men,
    56 lines
  • Rid of His Engine
    The way that it came about was this--
    I was stoker for over two years to Bill,
    40 lines
  • Jim Dalley
    "So you knew Dalley that used to drive
    That spanking old engine--fifty-five;"
    88 lines
  • Jim's Whistle
    No, the railway wasn't a fitting place
    For a man like him, at least one in his case;
    54 lines
  • The Violet
    On the down line, and close beside the rail,
    A tender violet grew,
    60 lines
  • Move Upward
    "Move upward, working out the brute,
    And let the ape and tiger die."
    91 lines
  • Railway Dreamings
    I work upon the line to-day,
    The rails on either side of me,
    48 lines
  • Song of The Engine
    In the shake and rush of the engine,
    In the full, deep breath of his chest,
    112 lines
  • Stood At Clear
    "Where is Adams?" that was the cry,
    "Let us question him before he die."
    26 lines
  • A Song of Progress
    Come away from pick and shovel for another day again,
    Glide along the veins of iron leading to the city's heart,
    64 lines
  • The Cuckoo
    Amid the sound of picks to-day,
    And shovels rasping on the rail,
    44 lines
  • In The Vanguard
    Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels
    Its own way with din and clamour through this century of ours
    84 lines
  • What The Engine Says
    What does the mighty engine say,
    Rolling along
    117 lines
  • Bill's Length
    "On to Bill's length," said my mate to me.
    Bill was his brother, had charge of the plates
    40 lines
  • Bob Cruikshanks
    This is what Bob Cruikshanks said,
    With a doubtful shake of the head,
    71 lines
  • Duncan Weir
    Back on the wrong line, that was all,
    Back in the morning, dusky and drear,
    60 lines
  • Finis
    The swart smoke geni with his heart aglow,
    And all his giant strength and vigour strung,
    24 lines
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