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To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal Zone	A
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In lazy laughing Panama	B
O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas	C
The low roofed houses lie afloat	D
White foam drift of the Caribbees	C
Under lithe palms that fan the sky	E
Down in each drowsy plaza there	F
Brown footed girls go glancing by	E
With red hibiscus in their hair	F
Low mountains trailing veils of cloud	G
In the two oceans dip their feet	H
And hear the proud tides roaring loud	G
Where Andes with Sierras meet	H
O Panama O ribbon twist	I
That ties the continents together	J
Now East and West shall slip your tether	J
And keep their ancient tryst	I
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What are you doing here	K
Young men with your engines vast	L
Sons of the pioneer	M
Who conquered wastes austere	M
And from ocean to ocean passed	L
Sons of the men who made	N
Reaper and telegraph	O
Steamer and aeroplane	A
All the iron handed things	C
Swift feet and tongues and wings	C
That would make the old gods laugh	O
For the bitter games they played	N
With the secrets they kept in vain	A
What are you doing here	K
Young men with your dredges and drills	C
That level the ancient hills	C
Into a path for ships	C
Open your eyes and lips	C
What do you see and hear	K
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'Oh we build you the world's last wonder	J
The thing not made with hands	C
Our steel beasts gnaw asunder	J
The locked and laboring lands	C
We choke the torrent's rage	P
And bid him his wrath assuage	P
By drowning the jungle deep	Q
In steel locked chambers gray	R
We hold his floods at bay	R
On wide blue lakes asleep	Q
Now shall the brave ships ride	S
Over the crouching hill	T
From eager tide to tide	S
That so we may fulfil	T
The iron century's will	T
That so our country maker of tools sublime	U
The nations may surprise	C
With this last gift of the grand old workman	A
Time	U
His prodigy powerful delicate sentient wise	C
Perfect in strange completeness strong to obey	R
Strong to compel the world along its way	R
And praise man's triumph in its mighty rhyme '	-
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But what are you doing here	K
Young men with your flags	C
With your glamour of joy severe	M
With your villages up the hill	T
The screened little houses gay	R
Where the good of all is the will	T
Of each in a grand new way	R
Sons of the men who founded	V
New states in the wilds to be	W
Garden and range unbounded	X
For young Democracy	W
Sons of the heroes dear	M
Who fought for liberty	W
What are you doing here	K
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'Look it's the same old fight	Y
Out of the dark to the light	Y
Never the end shall be	W
Till the last slave is free	W
Here while we dig the Ditch	Z
We would build you a perfect state	A2
Where service makes men great	A2
And the great scorn to be rich	Z
Where each man has his place	C
And a measure more than his meed	A2
A banner of joy to grace	C
The strength of the daily deed	A2
Where Disease trapped in his lair	F
With Squalor and Want and Care	F
Is slain with the poison fume	B2
He loosed for the proud world's doom	B2
Where the Work is a marching song	C2
Sung by us all together	J
Bearing the race along	C2
Through good and evil weather	J
Oh tell them shout it through the halls of time	U
When the Big Chief unrolls his glorious plan	A
Draws hearts and hands together in perfect rhyme	U
Nothing shall be impossible to Man '	-
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But what are you doing here	K
Young men with your gates	C
With your bells and beacons clear	M
Where the hope of the whole world waits	C
With your call across the seas	C
To the ships that circle afar	D2
To the nations that burn and freeze	C
Each under her separate star	D2
Who followed the Truth austere	M
Of poets and prophets grave	E2
What are you doing here	K
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'Hush we wait at the gate	A2
Till the dream shall be the law	T
He gave us our beacons and bells	C
Who first the vision saw	T
And the fleets of the world in state	A2
Shall follow his caravels	T
Ghost led our ships shall sail	T
West to the ancient East	A2
Once more the quest of the Grail	T
And the greatest shall be the least	A2
We shall circle the earth around	A2
With peace like a garland fine	A
The warring world shall be bound	A2
With a girdle of love divine	A
What build we from coast to coast	A2
It's a path for the Holy Ghost	A2
Oh Tomorrow and Yesterday	A2
At its gate clasp hands touch lips	T
They shall send men forth in ships	T
To find the perfect way	A2
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'All that was writ shall be fulfilled at last	A2
Come till we round the circle end the story	W
The west bound sun leads forward to the past	A2
The thundering cruisers and the caravels	T
Tomorrow you shall hear our song of glory	W
Rung in the chime of India's temple bells '	-
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O lazy laughing Panama	B
O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas	T
Pirate and king your colors wore	F2
And stained with blood your golden keys	T
Now what strange guest on what mad quest	A2
Lifts up your trophy to the breeze	T
O Panama O ribbon twist	A2
That ties the continents together	J
Now East and West shall slip your tether	J
And keep their ancient tryst	A2

Harriet Monroe

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