" The persona enjoys watching it "step/Around a pile of mountains . . .
The first line of the fourth stanza references Bonoarges, Christ's name for James and John, as metaphor for the subject's roar. The persona calls the subject "supercilious," claiming that it "peer[s]/In shanties by the side of roads." The persona enjoys watching it "step/Around a pile of mountains . . . and a quarry pare/To fit its sides." At the end of its journey it stops, oxymoronically "docile and omnipotent/At its own stable door." Depicting a conveyance "lick[ing] the valley up/And stop[ping] to feed itself at tanks," FTP name this Emily Dickinson poem that metaphorizes a train as a horse.
The first line of the fourth stanza references Bonoarges, Christ's name for James and John, as metaphor for the subject's roar.
"{I Like to See It Lap the Miles}" or Number {43}