We can't recall his name We should hold it dear Here lie the crumbling bones Of a Railway Engineer. Shame on us forgetting He helped our nation steer A simple direct digging man Was the Canal Engineer. Bleach clothes or clean the drains No need to live in fear The bugs and bacteria cleansed By a Chemical Engineer. Tall buildings and bridges Spanning valley, road or mere Do duty for a hundred years Let's praise the Structural Engineer. Steel, mining, plastics, planes Ships, milk, bread and beer We only have the life we do Because of an Engineer. So cast the bronze or plaster Write the plaque out clear "Beneath this monument lies A Very Worthy Engineer".
Tag: Engineer
A Jobbing Engineer
Just an ordinary man he seemed If you met him in the street A clever brain behind the glasses Always good to meet. Now he was the body before us In his coffin on the bier, Family, friends and customers All silently gathered here. He made parts for Concorde And joysticks for a computer game But struck out on his own account Tired just being a clock card name. Each work day he dressed in overalls And rode a bike down to his shed He followed the paths of commerce No matter where they led. Rarely lost for a solution To problems that teased his mind He grew and built a machine shop Giving service often hard to find. Always a modest man to everyone A little short and losing his hair He died owning the whole estate And was a multi-millionaire.
As I See Things 