Chapter 7 work
Who first invented work, and bound the free
And holyday-rejoicing spirit down
To the ever-haunting importance
Of business in the green fields, and the town--
To plough, loom, anvil, spade--and oh! most sad
To that dry drudgery at the desks dead wood?
Who but the Being unblest, alien from good,
Sabbathless Satan! he who his unglad
Task ever plies mid rotary burnings,
That round and round incalculably reel--
For wrath divine hath made him like a wheel--
In that red realm from which are no returns:
Where toiling, and turmoiling, ever and aye
He, and his thoughts, keep pensive working-day.