Ah, interview it lightly, for you know

You’ll need your Wits to manage your Machine.

Ah, my Beloved, fill the Lamps that shed

A steady Searchlight on our Path ahead;

To-morrow!—Why, To-morrow I may be

Myself with Yesterday’s Seven Thousand Dead.


Why, if your Car can fling the Dust aside,

And flying, through the Air of Heaven ride,