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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408562" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Australian Engineers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The people gabble of old things over and over again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the sake of the sleek importer we slave with the pick and the shears, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While hundreds of boys in Australia long to be engineers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new generation has risen under Australian skies, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boys with the light of genius deep in their dreamy eyes--- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not as of artists or poets with their vain imaginings, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But born to be thinkers and doers, and makers of wonderful things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Born to be builders of vessels in the Harbours of Waste and Loss, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That shall carry our goods to the nations, flying the Southern Cross; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And fleets that shall guard our seaboard---while the </div><div style="margin:10px 0">East is backed by the Jews--- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under Australian captains, and manned by Australian crews. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boys who are slight and quiet, but boys who are strong and true, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreaming of great inventions---always of something new; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With brains untrammelled by training, but quick where reason directs--- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boys with imagination and keen, strong intellects. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They long for the crank and the belting, the gear and the whirring wheel, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stamp of the giant hammer, the glint of the polished steel, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the mould, and the vice, and the turning-lathe </div><div style="margin:10px 0">---they are boys who long for the keys </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the doors of the world's mechanics and science's mysteries. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They would be makers of fabrics, of cloth for the continents--- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Makers of mighty engines and delicate instruments, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is they who would set fair cities on the western plains far out, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They who would garden the deserts---it is they who would conquer the drought! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They see the dykes to the skyline, where a dust-waste blazes to-day, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they hear the lap of the waters on the miles of sand and clay; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They see the rainfall increasing, and the bountiful sweeps of grass, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all the year on the rivers long strings of their barges pass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">. . . . . . . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still are the steamers loading with our timber and wood and gold, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To return with the costly shoddy stacked high in the foreign hold, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With cardboard boots for our leather, and Brum-magem goods and slops </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thin, white-faced Australians to sell in our sordid shops.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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