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