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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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ns achieved? Behold His wonders in the works of man Who in constructive labor hath received The impress of the great Creators plan! Thus in the wilderness the pioneer Forsook the ways of ease to toil and delve, And as he dreamed of cities he would rear, His ringing axe he buried to the helve! While as he blazed the trail and onward strodeWith fearless heart toward his cherished goal.Before his vision gleamed a shining roadWhose teeming traffic stirred his eager soul:As he had dreamed, so through the forest roseThe sound of hammers swung with rhythmic beat,When men of brawn unleashed their mighty blows,The obstacle of distance to defeat. For unto master minds the vision came, ,And in these giant intellects it grew,Until the dream took substance, and the flameOf genius lit the way to conquests new:And these great empire builders planned and wroughtAs though with magic power, heaven-bestowed;They toiled and served to gain the goal they sought,And built through sacrifice this mighty road.
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I Thus through the wilderness the rails of steelLinked up the habitations far and wide,And cities rose their splendors to reveal,Where domes of gold with parian columns vied;And commerce flowed in ever growing streams.From field to factory, from mine to mart,To serve the millions plunged in busy schemesOf industry to pulse the nations heart. And evolution answered every need;For from the pygmy tractor was evolvedThe modern, steel-bound, mile-a-minute steed,Whence miles to airy nothings are resolved.As flashing on with passengers or freight.The speeding monster skims the shining rails,From teeming city on through fruitful state.Heedless alike of pleasant winds or gales. All honor to the men of brain and brawn Who cut throught forests, cleft the mountainside, Spanned yawning chasms as they carried on, With bridge and tunnel linking tide to tide: The knights of industry; the engineers; Financial captains of constructive sway; These are the men who toiled through long, long years, To make

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