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138 The shapes arise! Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets, Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads, Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks,
 * girders, arches,

Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river
 * craft.

The shapes arise! Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and
 * Western Seas, and in many a bay and by-place,

The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the
 * hackmatack-roots for knees,

The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of
 * scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,

The tools lying around, the great auger and little
 * auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and
 * bead-plane.

The shapes arise! The shape measured, sawed, jacked, joined, stained, The coffin-shape for the dead to lie within in his
 * shroud;

The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in
 * the posts of the bride's bed,

The shape of the little trough, the shape of the
 * rockers beneath, the shape of the babe's cradle,

The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for
 * dancers' feet,

The shape of the planks of the family home, the
 * home of the friendly parents and children,

The shape of the roof of the home of the happy
 * young man and woman, the roof over the well-married
 * young man and woman,