The American Printer: A Manual of Typography / Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.

by Thomas MacKellar

Words are piled up steady and slow—

Steady and slow,

But still they grow,

And words of fire they soon will glow;

Wonderful words, that without a sound

Traverse the earth to its utmost bound;

Words that shall make

The tyrant quake,

And the fetters of the oppress’d shall break;

Words that can crumble an army’s might,