With things to eat, and things to travel,—

Bicycles spinning o'er the gravel,—

Great guns to simplify the fights,—

Suns outshone with electric lights,—

The whisper in the closet stirred

In sooth across the housetops heard,

And when the airy tangle tires

Earth to be veined with throbbing wires.

Women to physic and to preach,

And help the national bird to screech;