Who caused sharp earthquakes and much whizzing flame
By means of diagrams, and long dividers,
And thus exclaimed each iron-harnessed savage,
‘The unseen land of Elpholen we’ll ravage.’
“I did but ope one solemn book, and say:
‘O, ye Hydraulic Goblins of the mountains,
At once your tunnels, pumps, and flooms let play;
And loose old Himmalah’s rock-bound fountains.’
Then rivers of cold foam and spouting spray,
And cataracts which broke the cliffs away,