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Show MAKING HIMSELF. He looked at his job in a curious way, And I'll try to repeat what I once heard him say, "Now here is a task I've been given to do. And what will be said when my labor is through? I've the metals to work with, the tools to employ. Yet metals and tools many poor men destroy. Good and bad work are done to the very same plan So the final result must depend on tho man, So the final result must depend on the man, And this thing when it's finished fl going go-ing to be A positive mixture of metal and me. "This thing will be useful and tstand to the test If unti its making I've blended my best, If enough of myself I put Into my task, Who made it?' the man who shall use it will ask. If I work with the metals and follow the plan And shape it to size and then leave out the man It won't hold together or bear with the strain. And I, not the product, shall carry the stain. For back of the metal in this men shall see, In the way that I've shaped it a p)c ture of me. "My job is to labor in copper and brass To make certain things tho inspectors will pass, And the product once finished is Gent out to be A perfect resemblance in metal of me. If I've put into it the best that I could The article stands to the test and is good, And I share in the praise that its merit may claim By stamping a piece of good work I with my name. 4 i l .M So the thing that I'm building of cop fl per and brass Isn't merely a piece the in-pectorfl will ! pass I rome to my task here whatever it bt '. With the notion that what I am mak- . lm ing is me. : no |