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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Roebling
Language: English 
This industrial churn,
the motor’s low growl
calls out to those,
buried beneath the fold,
calls out to those
not working
to pick up your tools
to move your hands
to carve a beacon,
to release the fire
from the coal.
Juncta
Juvant

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Jennifer Jolley (b. 1981), "Roebling", 2012 [ chorus and synthesizer ], from Drei Brücken, no. 1
        Publisher: Jennifer Jolley [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2026-05-26
Line count: 13
Word count: 43

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