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Will Look out on an ocean of eatables.
The world will hccomc a fine china howl
Filled up 1'01' this human menagerie;
And the clean-shaven glohe, without beard or halr-
A monumental pumpkin-will revolve through the skies.
Alfred de Mussel, Nmnouna (Paris), p. 113 C"Dupont ct Durand"). [a10,4]
«S Saint-Simonian poetry-Savinien Lapointe, shoemaker, "'L'Emeute" :
No, the future -will dispense with barricades!
You great ones, while your hands arc huilding scaffolds,
Mine are scattering flowers OVCl' the graves.
To each his mission or his painful task:
To lhe poet, the song; to power, the ax!
Olinde Rodrigues, Poesies sociales des ouvriers (Paris, 1841), pp. 237, 239.
[a10,5]
From Alfred de Vigny, "La Maison du berger" , treating
of the railroad:
May God guide the thundering steam to its end
'Cross the mountains t.raversed hy iron rails.
Let an angel he perched on its loud-clanking hoiler
When it heads underground or rocks hridges.
Tul'Jl away from these tracks-they lack grace.
Theil' iron lines will take YOll
With the speed of an arrow through space,
Shot whistling from how to bull's-eye.
Thus hurled like a holt, human heings
Lose their hreath, lose their sight,
In the smothering cloud rent by lightning.
Distance and time arc now conquered hy Science,
Which encircles the world with its road sad and straight.
The World is reduced hy our experiment;
The equator is now but a tight-fitting hoop.
Alfred de Vigny, Poesies complftes, new edition (Paris, 1866), pp. 218, 220-221.
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To be compared with Cabet: the remarkable, beautiful poem "Le Havre;' by
Elise Fleury, embroiderer (Olinde Rodrigues, Poesies sociales des ouvriers [paris,
1841], p. 9). It describes an ocean steamer, contrasting the luxury cabins with the
lower deck. [a1 Oa,2]