Hands Of The Craftsman
David Harley
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Minutes ago as God measures time Something manlike emerged from primoridal slime Ever since, Mother Nature has been on the run From a hand with four fingers and opposable thumb That hand learned to grip, then it learned to shape Flint into a weapon, then a tool to shape To build and to kill, and around then it learned To strike sparks to bring fire and lighten man's world The hands of the craftsman have moulded our world From the first stone axe to the first steam drill To the harvester, laser, and silicon chip But the hands of the craftsman are losing their grip The years roll on swift with the birth of the wheel Man learned to work bronze, then iron and steel The bow drill, the pole lathe, the compass, the lock The lens, the sextant, the lantern, the clock Castings and mouldings, extrusions and pressings The bandsaw, the dropforge, the milling machine. The tools and the skills have changed through the centuries The crafts and the knowledge, if seldom the dreams The builder could turn his hand to most trades Masonry, joinery, plumbing and all The engineer trained on a score of machines Now it's often just one - he's in luck if it's more Modularization's the name of the game It means that they put you on just one machine One or two operations on just the one part It's efficient, but de-skilling's what it means One day we're skilled men, the next, operators The next, no-one knows if we'll be there at all The art passes into the programmer's hands Tomorrow, machines will service themselves The glazier, the bellfounder, printers and knappers Dyers and weavers, some are already lost Prefabrication will see out the tiler As the thatcher before him learned to his cost The paviour, the saddler, the cooper, the wheelwright Fitters and grinders and turners and smiths We all take our turn in the pattern of process And one by one, we're taking our leave
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