I WATCHED them tear a building down,

A crew of men in a busy town;

With a ho and a heave and a lusty yell,

They swung a beam and down the wall fell.

I asked the foreman, “Are these men skilled?

The kind you would hire if you would build?”

The foreman replied, “Why, no, indeed!

Common laborers are all I need,

For they can wreck in a day or two

That which has taken years to do.”

So I asked myself as I went on my way,

“What part in the game of life do you play)

Are you shaping your life to a well-made plan,

Patiently doing the best that you can?

Or are you a wrecker that walks the town,

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