When Israel by God’s address
From Pharaoh’s land was bent,
And Jacob’s house the strangers left
And in the same train went.
Since the completion of the Pacific Railway, some introductory lines in Southey’s Thalaba require correction:—
Who at this untimely hour
Wander o’er the desert sands?
No station is in view.
If the author would revisit the earth, he would find numerous “stations” on the railway route across the Great American Desert.