More manly natures, spite of foggy days,

Of all the unhealthy and smoke-darkened ways,

Made for our travelling: yes, in spite of all,

Some shape of beauty makes the whistle’s squall,

Sweet to our spirits. Such the bellman’s tune,

Roofs, old and rotten, leaking, a shady boon

For passengers; and such Excursion bills,

With the waste walls they cling to; and loud shrills,

With which the drivers nightly shindy make,

Sharp shunting shocks, the grinding of the brake,