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While bulldozers, drunk with gasoline Have once again scared and maimed Where once grew trees and meadows free Is now an earth, encased by concrete seas Engines roar, to drown our ears in echoed glee Where ghosts of children played their summer games Forced to leave their childhood memories In trenched out holes, and broken trees The big top guns...ravage earth, then run Dinosaurs that raise their iron heads Jaws dripping with loads of earth and grass As gophers rampaging through halls, bereft are forcing nature's giants to their knees Place by place destruction of the land And while the green world grandfathers knew Is gone in days, with every oak that falls When this new invading presense is someday done Has had his fill of dollar bills, then abandons one and all.. Who will mourn, who will recall? __________________________________________________________