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Rh The directory, the detector, the ledger, the books in
 * ranks on the book-shelves, the clock attached to
 * the wall,

The ring on your finger, the lady's wristlet, the scent-powder,
 * the druggist's vials and jars, the draught
 * of lager-beer,

The etui of surgical instruments, the etui of oculist's
 * or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments,

The permutating lock that can be turned and locked
 * as many different ways as there are minutes in a
 * year,

Glass-blowing, nail-making, salt-making, tin-roofing,
 * shingle-dressing, candle-making, lock-making and
 * hanging,

Ship-carpentering, dock-building, fish-curing, ferrying,
 * stone-breaking, flagging of side-walks by flaggers,

The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln
 * and brick-kiln,

Coal-mines, all that is down there, the lamps in the
 * darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what
 * vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd
 * faces,

Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by riverbanks,
 * men around feeling the melt with huge
 * crowbars—lumps of ore, the due combining of
 * ore, limestone, coal—the blast-furnace and the
 * puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of
 * the melt at last—the rolling-mill, the stumpy
 * bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T rail
 * for railroads,

Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house,
 * steam-saws, the great mills and factories,

Lead-mines, and all that is done in lead-mines, or
 * with the lead afterward,