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The book's dimensions are two feet (height) by three feet (width).
Its materials are wove paper, plastic cover, with a brass piano
hinge, and eyelets for a ribbon closure.
The UIC has number 14 of 14 copies.
Date printed: 1951
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(The poem caption on the right of the picture):
Upward on sawtooth rails, or cranked on cables
At first; then smooth rims took the incredulous hill.
Mountains .. we drilled and they dissolved like fables.
Weight's bugaboo was child's play for the wheel.
Now for destructive time. We hurl the answer;
Unicel, child of of thought. No robot queen
All bolts, beams, pins and crimping. Time's best teacher,
She will instruct time what endurance means.
Her secret is the staunch-in storm sequoio's ..
Who'd build that serene tree from plank and screw?
Her rugged soul and her own tensions hold .. as
Fingers that lock in love and won't undo.
Fling the tree-spirit against bolts and beams ..
It rides uninjured; the hurt iron screams.
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