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Chants Democratic.
:The directory, the detector, the ledger, the books in ranks on the book-shelves, the clock attached to the wall,
- The ring on your finger, the lady's wristlet, the scent-powder, the druggist's vials and jars, the draught of lager-beer,
- The etui of surgical instruments, the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments,
- The permutating lock that can be turned and locked as many different ways as there are minutes in a year,
- Glass-blowing, nail-making, salt-making, tin-roofing, shingle-dressing, candle-making, lock-making and hanging,
- Ship-carpentering, dock-building, fish-curing, ferrying, stone-breaking, flagging of side-walks by flaggers,
- The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal- kiln and brick-kiln,
- Coal-mines, all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
- Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by riverbanks, men around feeling the melt with huge crowbars—lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal—the blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last—the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T rail for railroads,
- Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,
- Lead-mines, and all that is done in lead-mines, or with the lead afterward,
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