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The careful textbooks measure...   let all who build be-  ware
The load, the shock, the pressure...  ma-  te-r-i-al  can bear
So when the buckled  girder...   lets down the grinding span
The blame of loss or  murder...     is la-id upon the man
  .. .. not on the steel...  ...  ...  the man
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But in our dail - y dealings... with stone and steel we find
The gods have no such feeling...    of justice towards man kind
To no set gauge they make us...    to no laid course pre- pare
In time they over take us...  with loads we cannot bear
  .. ..   to merci less...   ...  ...    to bear
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The pru-dent text-books give it...    in ta - bles  at...  the end
The stress that shears a rivet...      or  makes a tie - bar bend
What traffic  wrecks  ma- cadam...    what concrete should en- dure
But we poor sons of  Adam...     have  no   such   li - tera - ture
  .. .. to warn us or...           make sure...
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We hold all Earth to plun der...               all time and space as well
Too won-der   stale  to won-der...       at each  new  mira - cle
What traffic  wrecks  ma - cadam...      what concrete should en- dure
But we poor sons of  Adam...        have no  such  liter - a - ture
  ...   ...     to warn us or...             make sure...
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We on - ly  in  crea tion...(how-much luckier the bridge and rail
Too won-der   stale  to won-der...       at each  new  mira - cle
What traffic  wrecks  ma - cadam...      what concrete should en- dure
But we poor sons of  Adam...        have no  such  liter - a - ture
  ...   ...     to warn us or...             make sure...
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Oh veiled and se - cret power...   whose paths we seek in vain
Be with us in our  hour...       of o-ver-throw and pain
That we by which sole to- ken...        we know thy ways are  TRUE
In spite  of  be-ing broken...  or be cause of be-ing  broken
  ...  rise up and build... a-new... 
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