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Trade

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Where yonder ruddy-misted star     Is tumbling down the placid sky     The peoples aims were not so high     As our heroic motives are;     To love and trust they set a bar,     And Profit was their only cry;     They paid but little heed how nigh     Came thundering the iron car.     It rushed upon them and it passed     Leaving a ghost of pain and fear     To haunt the ruin it had made.     But surely they have learnt at last?     What far faint murmur can we hear     Of frantic howling? Listen! . . . TRADE.

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