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Alfred Kreymborg, ed. Others for 1919. 1920.

William Saphier

The Night Shift

THEY are like pick axes,

they never argue,

and never smile.

They tramp through the darkness

to work.

They tramp through the darkness

home to sleep.

They are like pick axes,

and with solemn faces

go through glass and iron

and through cement.

With their hard hands

they kill the night.

They are like pick axes,

they never worry,

and never think, is it wrong.

If it is,

they will make a good job of it.

They move like fate

and each hides a scar,

somewhere in the night,

and tells the world

to go to hell.