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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511103" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Secret of the Machinery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Modern Machinery<br>We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,<br>We were melted in the furnace and the pit-<br>We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,<br>We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit.<br>Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask,<br>And a thousandth of an inch to give us play:<br>And now, if you will set us to our task,<br>We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive,<br>We can print and plough and weave and heat and light,<br>We can run and race and swim and fly and dive,<br>We can see and hear and count and read and write!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would you call a friend from half across the world?<br>If you'll let us have his name and town and state,<br>You shall see and hear your cracking question hurled<br>Across the arch of heaven while you wait.<br>Has he answered? Does he need you at his side-<br>You can start this very evening if you choose<br>And take the Western Ocean in the stride<br>O seventy thousand horses and some screws!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boat-express is waiting your command!<br>You will find the Mauritania at the quay,<br>Till her captain turns the lever 'neath his hand,<br>And the monstrous nine-decked city goes to sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you wish to make the mountains bare their head<br>And lay their new-cut forests at your feet?<br>Do you want to turn a river in its bed,<br>Or plant a barren wilderness with wheat?<br>Shall we pipe aloft and bring you water down<br>From the never-failing cisterns of the snows,<br>To work the mills and tramways in your town,<br>And irrigate your orchards as it flows?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is easy! Give us dynamite and drills!<br>Watch the iron-shouldered rocks lie down and quake,<br>As the thirsty desert-level floods and fills,<br>And the valley we have dammed becomes a lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But remember, please, the Law by which we live,<br>We are not built to comprehend a lie,<br>We can neither love nor pity nor forgive.<br>If you make a slip in handling us you die!<br>We are greater than the Peoples or the Kings-<br>Be humble, as you crawl beneath our rods!-<br>Our touch can alter all created things,<br>We are everything on earth-except The Gods!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, <br>It will vanish and the stars will shine again,<br>Because, for all our power and weight and size,<br>We are nothing more than children of your brain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,
We were melted in the furnace and the pit-
We were cast and wrought and hammered to design,
We were cut and filed and tooled and gauged to fit.
Some water, coal, and oil is all we ask,
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