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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511104" 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 monstrouos 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! <br> <br> 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 ..."></div>
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