For smiths and workmen true:
“Come, build me engines great and strong;
We’ll have,” quoth he, “a change ere long;
We’ll try what Steam can do.”
III.
Old King Coal was a merry old soul:
“’Tis fairly done,” quoth he,
When he saw the myriad wheels at work
O’er all the land and sea.
They spared the bones and strength of men,