120 OXE THOUSAND FAMOUS THINGS

The Panama Gang

HEHE we are , gentlemen ; here's the whole gang of us,
Pretty near through with the job we are on ;
Size up our work (it will give you the hang of us)

South to Balboa and north to Colon.
Yes, the eaital is our letter of reference ;
Look at Culebra and, glance at Gatun ;
What ean we do for you— got any preference,
Wireless to Saturn or bridge to the moon ?

Don't send us b;u:k to a life that is flat again,

We who have shattered a continent's spine ;
Oiliee work-— -oh, but we couldn't do that again !

Haven't }ou .(something that's niorc in our line ?
(Jot any river they say isn't cross&hlc ?

(Jot any mountains that can't be cut through ?
We specialise in the wholly impossible,

Doing things nobody ever could do !

Take u good look at the whole husky crew of us,

Engineers, doctors, and steam-shovel men ;
Taken together you'll find quite a few of us

Soon to be ready for trouble again.
Bmuzed by the tropical sun that Ls blistery,

Chockfut of energy, vigour, and tang,
Trainee! by a task that's the biggest in history,

Who lias a job for this Panama Gang ?

Berlin

If the Earth Should Pall Tonight
YF this little world tonight
1 Suddenly should fall through space
In a hissing, headlong flight,
Shrivelling from off its £accf
As it falls into the SUE
In an instant every trace
Of the little crawling things- —
Ants, philosophers, and lice,
Cattle, cockroaches, and kings,
Beggars, millionaires mid mice,
Men and maggots all as one
As it falls into the sun * - *
Who can say but at the same
Instant from some planet far,
A child may watch us and exclaim ;
Set the pretty $k&&iin$* star,
Oliver Htrfwd