THE DAY OF HIS PREPARATION

LAY down your rails, ye nations, near and far,

Yoke your full trains to steam’s triumphal car;

Link town to town, unite in iron bands

The long-estranged and oft-embattled lands.

 Peace, mild-eyed seraph; knowledge, light Divine,

Shall send their messengers by every line.

Men joined in amity shall wonder long

That hate had power to lead their fathers wrong;

Or that false glory lured their hearts astray,

And made it virtuous and sublime to slay.

How grandly now these wonders of our day

Make preparation for Christ’s royal way,

And with what joyous hope our souls

Do watch the ball of progress as it rolls,

Knowing that all, completed or begun,

Is but the dawning that precedes the sun!

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