Villanelle Age of Steam

 
I would love to live in the age of steam    
so grandly elegant with its great grace    
tis such a romantic place where I dream,    
 
Those ships and engines with brasses a'gleam    
Besler's steam airplane flew! Gas? In your face!  
I would love to live in the age of steam.  
 
The Golden Arrow the African Queen    
they've such lovely lyrical names in place    
tis such a romantic place for my dreams,    
   
Stanley's Steamer car ran ever so clean    
there wasn't so much hurry or much haste    
I would love to live in the age of steam.  
   
Such devine colour schemes, green, red and cream    
not like today's they are so drab and base    
such a romantic place to place my dream,    
   
Diamond in my tooth gives an expensive sheen    
and keeps the unwashed hoi-polloi away,    
then for sure I'd live in the age of steam    
this, so romantic age, in which I dream.