Fast typing - "Banking Coal"

Type the 12/26/2025 poem of the day by Jean Toomer in 2:10.

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Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal To start the Fire, did his part well;	Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal To start the Fire, did his part well;
Not all wood takes to fire from a match, Nor coal from wood before it’s burned to charcoal.	Not all wood takes to fire from a match, Nor coal from wood before it’s burned to charcoal.
The wood and coal in question caught a flame And flared up beautifully, touching the air That takes a flame from anything.	The wood and coal in question caught a flame And flared up beautifully, touching the air That takes a flame from anything.
Somehow the fire was furnaced, And then the time was ripe for some to say, “Right banking of the furnace saves the coal.”	Somehow the fire was furnaced, And then the time was ripe for some to say, “Right banking of the furnace saves the coal.”
I’ve seen them set to work, each in his way, Though all with shovels and with ashes, Never resting till the fire seemed most dead;	I’ve seen them set to work, each in his way, Though all with shovels and with ashes, Never resting till the fire seemed most dead;

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Whereupon they’d crawl in hooded night-caps Contentedly to bed.	Whereupon they’d crawl in hooded night-caps Contentedly to bed.
Sometimes the fire left alone Would die, but like as not spiced tongues Remaining by the hardest on till day would flicker up, Never strong, to anyone who cared to rake for them.	Sometimes the fire left alone Would die, but like as not spiced tongues Remaining by the hardest on till day would flicker up, Never strong, to anyone who cared to rake for them.
But roaring fires never have been made that way.	But roaring fires never have been made that way.
I’d like to tell those folks that one grand flare Transferred to memory tissues of the air Is worth a like, or, for dull minds that turn in gold, All money ever saved by banking coal.	I’d like to tell those folks that one grand flare Transferred to memory tissues of the air Is worth a like, or, for dull minds that turn in gold, All money ever saved by banking coal.

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