O for the voices of animals—
O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!
O for the dropping of
Raindrops in a song!
O for the sunshine
And motion of waves in a song!
O the engineer’s joy
To go with a locomotive
To hear the hiss of steam,
The merry shriek, the steam whistle,
The laughing locomotive!
To push with resistless way
And speed off in the distance.