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With the Straw Carrier (2) - ZaunköniG - 22.05.2007 With the Straw Carrier Flush with the pond the lurid furnace burned At eve, while smoke and vapor filled the yard; The gloomy winter sky was dimly starred, The fly-wheel with a mellow murmur turned; While, ever rising on its mystic stair In the dim light, from secret chambers borne, The straw of harvest, severed from the corn, Climbed, and fell over, in the murky air. I thought of mind and matter, will and law, And then of him, who set his stately seal Of Roman words on all the forms he saw Of old-world husbandry; I could but feel With what a rich precision he would draw The endless ladder, and the booming wheel! Continued Did any seer of ancient time forbode This mighty engine, which we daily see Accepting our full harvests, like a god, With clouds about his shoulders--it might be Some poet-husbandman, some lord of verse, Old Hesiod, or the wizard Mantuan, Who catalogued in rich hexameters The rake, the roller, and the mystic van; Or else some priest of Ceres, it might seem, Who witnessed, as he trod the silent fane, The notes and auguries of coming change, Of other ministrants in shrine and grange-- The sweating statue, and her sacred wain Low-booming with the prophecy of steam! |