THE PRINTER

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 75, 16 December 1875, Page 7

THE PRINTER

Pick and click ] : JGroes the 'type iinibhesticte, ' As the printer stands at his caso ; ', . ' His eyes glance quick, and his-fingersipick; ; The type at a rapid pace ; ' .■-•.• And one by one as the' letters go; V i' Words are piled up steady, aad slow -. , Steady and slow . > • But still 'they 'grow, ' Aud ivbrdsof fire they soon will glow) Wonderful words.that withoufc y a, sound - Traverse the earth to its utmost bound ; Words that shall make The tyrant quake, Ami;the lexers of the .oppressed shall .break ; Words that can crumbloan army's imglit*}* Or -treble its;streangt'h'ma righteo.usfnghfc. Yet they look but leaden andgdumb, ~'\ As he puts~th'ein in place' ivith finger and thumb ■ - r But the printer smiles, „ ;. .And his work beguiles, ' : / By chanting' a song as thVletteiis he piiesV - ; Wibhtpick and click; ='; Like the "World's thrononieter, tick ! tick ! tick! O, where is the-man.-with such simple tools Can gorern the world as I? ■*- ; WiCh atpriDtingi.pressj,. an 1 iron^gtick, : . ' j « And a'lifctle leaden die, . With paper of wfiiteilahdiink ofblack, I support the Right, and the wrong atack* Say, whereis'hb; jor)whoimay he be, That can rival the printer's po,wer ? To no mbnafchsf that live' the' wall r dotti He' give j J Their sway lasts only an -liojuj. ; , ... „ r . . . t While the printer still grows,'anttQ'od ! r 6nly knows ; Wlien his niight. shaU<geas>rt6;tQ'wer !