That’s big enough to hold a million,

May ride our hobby with a cheer-up,

And he’ll not kick, bite, plunge, nor rear up,

But vires in eundo crescit,[132]

As cousin Virgil somewhere has it

So fire, which has obtain’d ascendence,

When setting up for independence,

Prepares by heat of radiation

Combustibles for conflagration;—

By burning fast, the mighty master