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Soon shall thy arm, unconquer’d steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the field of air.
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The Botanic Garden (1791), Part i, Canto i, line 289.

 

Erasmus Darwin

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