MOTION

The swaying motion on the banks of the river falls
The vortex at the sternpost,
The swiftness of the rail,
The vast passage of the current
Conduct through unimaginable lights
And chemical change
The travelers surrounded by waterspouts of the strath
And of the strom.

They are the conquerors of the world
Seeking their personal chemical fortune;
Sports and comforts voyage with them;
They carry the education
Of races, classes and of animals, on this ship
Repose and dizziness
To torrential light
To terrible nights of study.

For from the talk among the apparatus, the blood, the flowers, the fire, the gems,
From the excited calculations on this fugitive ship,
— One sees, rolling like a dyke beyond the hydraulic-powered road,
Monstrous, endlessly illuminated, — their stock of studies;
They driven into harmonic ecstacy,
And the heroism of discovery.