The Steamboat + 

In early times the swift steamboat + 

O’er the broad ocean did not float, + 

But ships were wafted o’er the seas, + 

With sails inflated by the breeze. + 

In progress they could not prevail, + 

If ’gainst ship’s haad did blow the gale; + 

And oft times for many a day + 

Becalmed on ocean’s breast they lay. + 

But now the mighty monarch, steam, + 

O’er land and sea doth rule supreme; + 

Steamship proudly ploughs the ocean, + 

Independent of wind’s motion. + 

From Scottish hill when I was boy, + 

I cried out in my childish joy; + 

The thought which filled my heart with glee, + 

America, I plainly see. + 

Then I was told to my amaze, + 

That it was far beyond my gaze; + 

The chart to me was then unfurled, + 

To prove I could not see whole world. + 

The truth to me was great surprise then, + 

That world was greater than horizon; + 

Our views through life they thus expand, + 

Beholding God’s creation grand. + 