THE GREAT THINKER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2035, 30 September 1919, Page 4

THE GREAT THINKER.

Back of the heating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop’s clamour, The seeker may find the thought; The thought that is ever master Of iron and steam and steel, That rises above disaster And tramples it under heel. The drudge may fret and tinker Or labour with lusty blows, But;back-of him stands the thinker, The clear-eyed man who knows; For into each plough or sabre, Each piece and part and whole,. Must go the brains, of’labour, ’ Which gives the work a soul. Back of the motor’s humming, Back of the bell that sings, Back of the hammer’s drumming, Back,of the crane that swings, There is the eye which scans them, Watching through stress and strain, There is the blind which plans them — Back of the brawn, the brain. Might of the roaring boiler, Force of the engine’s thrust, Strength of the sweating toiler, Greatly in these we trust; But back of them stands the Schemer, The Thinker who drives things through; Bade of the job—-the Dreamer Who’s making the dream come true. —B. Bra-lev.