Prayers of Steel
by Carl Sandburg
Prayers of Steel is featured in Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Cornhuskers, published in 1918.

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike. Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together. Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders. Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars.
You may also enjoy Woody Guthrie's folk song, Hard Traveling.
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