Classic Poem

Cough and splutter, clang and shriek,
Day and night, week after week!
Choke with smoke the passers by,
Fill with slack the public eye!
Turn your squatty drivers round
Fifty times each foot of ground!
Siss and sizzle, gasp and jerk —
Fools will think you're hard at work!

" Pull them box-cars up the track!
Wot yer doin'! Push 'em back! "

Don't go easy! Let 'em slam!
Now then! You don't care a — clam!
Do this ten score times a day,
Then all night — the other way!
Over frogs and switches leap,
Don't let anybody sleep!
When there's nothing else in sight
Down to Christophe take a flight!
Throw her over! Let her fly!
You'll catch victims by and by!
What is horse or coach to you!
Hit a man — now hit one! Do!

That's it! Smash him! Grind him fine!
Spread his blood along the line!
Spread it even, spread it thick!
Sand may slip but blood will stick!