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POEM FOR TOMORROW, by                    
First Line: Now is the time for labor
Last Line: And cold sleeping.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


Now is the time for labor
under the sun.
Stranger and friendly neighbor
should rise as one,

breathe March air, swiftly harness
wagon to team
go forth, waken a furnace,
use live steam.

Each will speak to the other
because he must.
All shall put arms together
and from this dust

lift smokestacks, mine lead ore,
web tracks through day,
bridge a wide stream, and more,
but not your way --

you cannot drive them longer,
sowing and reaping
the blackened bread of their hunger
and cold sleeping.





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