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LUSITANIAThe sun of May shone on the great shipyard, on the narrow reach of river, on the green pastures beyond. It shone on the toil of man and his handiwork, on the quietly-flowing lane leading to the war-ridden ocean highway, on the peace that seemed a dream of long ago.
Clamour of human labour in all its harshness rose to pale blue skies kept clear by a light, steady breeze, while tall chimneys breathed forth their blackness, and short chimneys spewed fire, and slender chimneys gasped their vapours. For here were the powers of earth and air and water gathered together and harnessed in man's service, to work his will at the touch of a finger, the pressure of a foot. Fiery furnaces, compressed gases escaping, thundering pumps, prodigious flywheels, droning, buzzing, crackling dynamos—all, and a hundred others—swelled the chorus of work.
Tons of iron ran like ruddy water; masses of metal were hammered and shaped, under a lad's control, to the forms ordained. Brass shrieked in vain against a whirling saw, and suffered trimming under a pitiless plane. Guided by a goggled youth, a little roaring flame ate clean through a slab of steel, with no more disturbance than the sputtering o
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