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...From where I lingered in a lull in march
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
'O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.'
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was ...Read more of this...

.... The only shade fell on the beatnik.

 The shade came down off the Lillie Hitchcock Colt statue

of some metal fireman saving a metal broad from a mental

fire. The beatnik now lay on the bench and the shade was two

feet longer than he was.

 A friend of mine has written a poem about that statue. God-

damn, I wish he would write another poem about that statue,

SO it would give me some shade two feet longer than my body.

 I was right about "The Wom...Read more of this...

...the morning hours, in the dawn,
The sun puts out the stars of the sky
And the headlight of the Limited train.

The fireman waves his hand to a country school teacher on a bobsled.
A boy, yellow hair, red scarf and mittens, on the bobsled, in his lunch box a pork chop sandwich and a V of gooseberry pie.

The horses fathom a snow to their knees.
Snow hats are on the rolling prairie hills.
The Mississippi bluffs wear snow hats.. . .
Keep your...Read more of this...

...away to the scrap yard.
I put it straight to you,
After the farmer, the miner, the shop man, the factory
hand, the fireman and the teamster,
Have all been remembered with bronze memorials,
Shaping them on the job of getting all of us
Something to eat and something to wear,
When they stack a few silhouettes
Against the sky
Here in the park,
And show the real huskies that are doing the work of
the world, and feeding people instead of butchering them,
Then maybe I will stan...Read more of this...

...self become the wounded
 person; 
My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

I am the mash’d fireman with breast-bone broken; 
Tumbling walls buried me in their debris; 
Heat and smoke I inspired—I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades; 
I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels; 
They have clear’d the beams away—they tenderly lift me forth.

I lie in the night air in my red shirt—the pervading hush is for my sake; 
Painless ...Read more of this...

...ips in easy costumes;
The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea; 
—The city fireman—the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack’d square, 
The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring, 
The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of
 the
 arms
 forcing the water, 
The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets—the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders, and
 the...Read more of this...

...Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow;
"Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and give the land a show.
I'm fed up to the molar mark with wallopin' the brine;
I feel the bloody barnacles a-carkin' on me spine.
Let's hit the hard-boiled North a crack, where creeks are paved with gold."
"You count me in," says Hank the Fin...Read more of this...

...r St. Catherine;
And while cruising about they must have been ill,
But they succeeded in picking up an engineer and fireman, also Captain Milne. 

And at daybreak on Sunday morning the men in the lifeboat
Were picked up by the schooner "Waterbird" as towards her they did float,
And landed at Weymouth, and made all right
By the authorities, who felt for them in their sad plight. 

But regarding the barque "Nor," to her I must return,
And, no doubt, for the drowned ...Read more of this...

...ho was it?" "Down him." "Out him, Em." 
"Duck him at pump, we'll see who'll burn." 
A policeman clutched, a fireman clutched, 
A dozen others snatched and touched. 
"By God, he's stripped down to his buff." 
"By God, we'll make him warm enough." 
"After him," "Catch him," "Out him," " Scrob him." 
"We'll give him hell." "By God, we'll mob him." 
"We'll duck him, scrout him, flog him, fratch him." 
"All right," I said. "But first you...Read more of this...

...Brown, 
But the roof was fired, and amongst them it came crashing down. 

And miraculously they escaped except one fireman, 
The hero of the fire, named Robert Allan, 
Who was carried with the debris down to the street floor, 
And what he suffered must have been hard to endure. 

He travelled to the fire in Buchanan Street, 
On the first machine that was ordered, very fleet,
Along with Charles Smith and Dan. Ritchie, 
And proceeded to Brown & Smith's buildings th...Read more of this...

...here 
With the Scots Brigade till the foe was gone, 
With ever a rail to run her on. 
Ready behind! Stand clear! 

"Fireman, get you gone 
Into the armoured train -- 
I will drive her alone; 
One more trip -- and perhaps the last -- 
With a well-raked fire and an open blast; 
Hark to the rifles again!" 

On through the choking dark, 
Never a lamp nor a light, 
Never an engine spark 
Showing her hurried flight, 
Over the lonely plain 
Rushed the great armoured train, 
Hurr...Read more of this...

...s a Flow'r to be.
And think so still! though not compare
With Breath so sweet, or Cheek so faire.

Well shot ye Fireman! Oh how sweet,
And round your equal Fires do meet;
Whose shrill report no Ear can tell,
But Ecchoes to the Eye and smell.
See how the Flow'rs, as at Parade,
Under their Colours stand displaid:
Each Regiment in order grows,
That of the Tulip Pinke and Rose.

But when the vigilant Patroul
Of Stars walks round about the Pole,
Their Leaves, that ...Read more of this...

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