The engineer

Who lays the last stone of his sea-built tower,

And, smiling at it, bids the winds and waves

To roar and whistle now—but in a night

Beholds the tempest sporting in its place,

May look agash as I did.

Also in the exclamation,—

Fathers, make straws your children: nature's nothing,

Blood nothing: once in other veins it flows,

It no more yawneth for the parent flood