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Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight
The policeman buys shoes slow and careful ; the teamster
buys gloves slow and careful; they take care of
their feet and hands; they live on their feet and
hands.
The milkman never argues; he works alone and no one
speaks to him; the city is asleep when he is on the
job; he puts a bottle on six hundred porches and
calls it a day's work; he climbs two hundred
wooden stairways ; two horses are company for him ;
he never argues.
The rolling-mill men and the sheet-steel men are brothers
of cinders; they empty cinders out of their shoes
after the day's work; they ask their wives to fix
burnt holes in the knees of their trousers; their
necks and ears are covered with a smut; they scour