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"We are weak! " said the Sticks, and men broke them; / "We are weak! " said the Threads, and were torn; / Till new thoughts came and they spoke them; / Till the Fagot and the Rope were born.
For the Fagot men find is resistant, / And they anchor on the Rope's taut length; / Even grasshoppers combined, / Are a force, the farmers find -- / In union there is strength.