Subtle brains and lissom fingers : being some of the chisel-marks of our industrial and scientific progress and other papers / by Andrew Wynter.

  • Andrew Wynter
Date:
1869
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Credit: Subtle brains and lissom fingers : being some of the chisel-marks of our industrial and scientific progress and other papers / by Andrew Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And as it passed, beneath its nnder-edge, The Sun sent down his smile npon the earth; Spreading from field to field, from tree to sedge. As laughter spreads around a tale of mirth. The sunshine now with joyous step moved on Until it reached a corn-field, spreading wide. That, pale before the wind, ran swift along. All blanched with fear, like foam-waves on a tide. But every ear soon felt the sunlight fall. And quick upreared its head against the sky, And shook its yellow beard and form so tall. As cowards do when danger has gone by. Eeleased, the glorious orbed sun did rise, And Earth smiled gladly through her crystal tears, Grlad as the looks that gleam from brimming eyes When joy doth take the place of haunting fears. And then the splendours of the arch did grow. The moist earth spanning with its glorious sweep; A frame of coloured tears its gentle bow, For many a village spire and rural peep. Slowly away I saw that lone cloud ride. Its sluggard shadow loitering o'er the plain j But swift anon it climbed the mountain side. Contorted strange, like some huge thing in pain.
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