Sag and lift The cedar butt, Roll the oak And butternut. Mark the edge With finest line. Strip the white, The yellow pine. Grip the helve, Sharpen the steel -- Bark of spruce And hemlock peel. Rip-saw, rip, Prying with groan. Lift saw, lift, Whetted with stone. This is the arm Forged with thunder, Piling, sawing, Sawing lumber. This is the iron Branding the will, This is the song Of the saw-mill. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RIGS O' BARLEY by ROBERT BURNS THE CUMBERLAND by HERMAN MELVILLE AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT by MARIA ABDY PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 60. AL-MU'HID by EDWIN ARNOLD IN APRIL by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY THE BOY AND THE FLUTE by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON APPLE-GATHERING by MATHILDE BLIND A MORNING PIECE; WRITTEN IN ABSENCE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |