Show THE SHOPS By Berton Berton Braley Braley- Factories are crude and ugly places t Even at best and most of them are filled With belts and shafts machinery that races And when with heavy hands and grimy faces And noise noise noise noise noise-noise noise noise that is ever sp spilled ll d Upon the air like molten white-hot white steel So fierce it is noise is-noise noise that is ground and shrilled Pounded and shrieked and hummed Clattered and drummed drummed- Noise of the furnace and the hammer squeal Of monster planers crunch of giant shears Humble Rumble of rollers thudding on the ears With most intolerable clamor yet these places Through far flung spaces The long trains thunder j over vasty seas The ships move on superbly towers rise and strong against the murky skies Of roaring cities miracles cities miracles like these All the huge wonders of this plangent tune tim Are AT born of clanging shops bedimmed with grime |