Of our doings and our happenings,

Should they parted be from us?

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Help us, oh, Thou Wise Creator,

From the fulness of thy wisdom,

Show us how to spread our knowledge,

And disseminate our actions,

Such as we find worthy, truly."

Quick the answer came from heaven;

Muckintosh, the famous thinker,

Muckintosh, the great and mighty,

Felt a trembling, felt a quaking,

Saw the earth about him open,

Saw the iron from the mountains

Form a quaint and queer machine,

Saw the lead from out the lead mines

Roll into small lettered forms,

Saw the fibres from the flax-plant,

Spread into great sheets of paper,

Saw the ink galls from the green trees

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