And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping

The reddest flower would look pale as snow.

For, all day, we drag our burden tiring

Through the coal-dark, underground;

Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron

In the factories, round and round.

For all day the wheels are droning, turning;

Their wind comes in our faces,

Till our hearts turn, our head with pulses burning,

And the walls turn in their places: