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Russian Prayer,th century  Lew Sarett

CARL SANDBURG

PRAYERS OF STEEL

Lay me on an anvil, O God.

Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.

Let me pry loose old walls.

Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

Lay me on an anvil, O God,

Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.

Take red-hot rivets and fasten me to the central girders.

Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue

nights into white stars.