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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.
100%
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.”
100%
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.
100%
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;
100%
But roaring fires never have been made that way. But roaring fires never have been made that way.
50%
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;
50%
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.
50%
Whereupon they’d crawl in hooded night-caps Contentedly to bed. Whereupon they’d crawl in hooded night-caps Contentedly to bed.
50%
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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