A North Andover Factory

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    Written early one morning with coffee.

    A North Andover Factory

    A North Andover Factory

    reflecting on the Osgood Mills

    A factory yard restored for the comfort of modern folks
    Who pass this place with little thought
    Of those who worked and lived in the age before,
    When steam was king


    The sun rises amid silent towers
    Of brick and mortar, of wood and iron
    Built during an earlier, near forgotten time,
    When steam was king


    I see her in faded light running
    Running to make the bell and spin the yarn
    This last-century beauty condemned to toil.
    When steam was king


    Factory floors stained by the passing
    Of countless thousands that went before
    About their daily world of smoke and sweat,
    When steam was king


    Made immortal in these places, amid the stacks
    Blood stained brick and sweat soaked wood
    Restored for our use in the new century
    Old sounds still resonate

    Ted Aronis
    c'01

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    AFIRIQUE commented on A North Andover Factory

    12-23-2009

    GRETA PIECE, FULL OF NOSTALGIC IMAGERIES. I LOVE THE REFRAIN. A MUST READ.

    ta

    12/27/2009

    tell your friends lol

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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