BUILD YOUR ABC

All these letters are made of and
and pieces of and

A The simplest letter is I it is straight
So here with one straight piece you build an I.

How many letters can you build with long straight
pieces and short **and short** pieces?

2 Take and ; put on the top of
lying down, so you have built T.

E Take the top off the and place it at the bottom
of on the right-hand side and you
have I

4 Now you turn in. Add two straight pieces
to one at the top and one in the
middle you have built E.

5 Now you can make a magic and turn E into F. Take away
the bottom piece and you have F.

6 Next you will build the letters that need two long
straight pieces, put a short straight piece
across their middle and you have H.

7 Now you slant the two long pieces until they meet.

12½ po

His foreshadowing brow
hewn of a tender granite,
his lips bent grim with their compassionate mirth;
the impolutable politician
spoke
to posterity
words his sincerity sealed with perfection.

America,
laborious and fearless men
laid your foundations;
pilgrims who prayed o'er them
with their sweet women.

To-day,
in spirit, those your pioneers
salute the miracle America they made
for that which currently arises in their wake;
the complementary miracle of her safeguard.

The very wind blows on your stars and stripes
the gale of their laudations.

The voice of your beginning
lingering, acclaiming,
your New-World measure
of the illimitable
on which, among its inches edging on miles,
its hours yielding as years,
the zero of the unattainable
does not figure.

While you, as erst you instrumented ease,
create, for conquest
in the wink-of-a-world's eye;
sowing this hemisphere
with dragon's teeth
of defence, blooming over-night,
lavishly
as your predecessors
cast their seed,
amazing mankind
with the dimensions
of your achievements.

In resurrection
from those liquid ores
the industrial phoenix
lifts talons of steel,
extends its iron feathers
on its flight
of civilization's
celerity.

America messenger,
the echoes of your voice
are Earth's antipodes whispering together;
since the electric conjury of Morse,
of Bell, of Field
forced Space to yield
her secrecy;
Distance to dwindle
to a timeless flash
across unfailing areas
of sea and air.

America Good Neighbour
to the four corners',
the followers
of your cross,
red as the wound to be healed,
pursue disaster to its destination;
the chivalry of their bountifulness
excelling
all wherewith the world has
succoured ☞ sufferers are this.

America Heroica
your olympian son
Abraham Lincoln
of forestal birth,
even as an uprooted oak,
strode with an integrity of Nature
into the clamour of cities,
gaunt with his urgent promise
to Humanity,
of Liberty.

In resurrection
from those liquid ores
the industrial phoenix
lifts talons of steel,
extends it's iron feathers
on it's flight
of civilization's
celerity.

America, messenger,
the echoes of your voice
are Earth's antipodes whispering together;
since the electric conjury of Morse,
of Bell, of Field
forced Space to yield
her secrecy;
Distance to dwindle
to a timeless flash
across unfailing areas
of sea and air.

America Good Neighbour
to the four corners',
the followers
of your cross,
red as the wound to be healed,
pursue disaster to its destination;
the chivalry of their bountifulness
excelling
all wherewith the world has
succored the sufferer ere this.