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130 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 their
 * execution,

The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or
 * through floors, if the fire smoulders under them,

The crowd with their lit faces, watching—the glare
 * and dense shadows;

The forger at his forge-furnace, and the user of iron
 * after him,

The maker of the axe large and small, and the
 * welder and temperer,

The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel,
 * and trying the edge with his thumb,

The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it
 * firmly in the socket,

The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past
 * users also,

The primal patient mechanics, the architects and
 * engineers,

The far-off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice, The Roman lictors preceding the consuls, The antique European warrior with his axe in
 * combat,

The uplifted arm, the clatter of blows on the
 * helmeted head,

The death-howl, the limpsey tumbling body, the rush
 * of friend and foe thither,

The siege of revolted lieges determined for liberty, The summons to surrender, the battering at castle
 * gates, the truce and parley,