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24 And golden paves the spacious ways where, o'er the smoothen granite flags, The lightning-driven car conveys its freight with force that never lags.

A goodly city! where no stain of engine-smoke or factory grime Blemishes walls that will retain their pristine pureness for all time: Lying as one might take a gem and set it in some strange device Of precious metal, and might hem it round with stones of lesser price— So from encircling fields doth spring this city where, in emerald sheen, Man hath taught Nature how to bring a mantle of perennial green— Hewing canals whose banks are fringed by willows bending deeply down To waters flowing yellow-tinged beneath the moon toward the town— Filling from mighty reservoirs, sunk in the hollows of the plain, That flood the fields without a pause though Summer should withhold her rain. Labour is but an empty name to those who dwell within this land, For they have boldly learnt to tame the lightning's flash with iron hand: