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The Hada at Uchhehra<br />
Again and again<br />
they’ve been through<br />
furnaces hot<br />
Coal embers angry red<br />
No trace of hard edges<br />
Their mettle<br />
a blazing molten lava<br />
now inseparable copper and zinc<br />
poured into moulds<br />
defined<br />
Then beaten with hammers iron<br />
Face blackened<br />
as curious eyes<br />
scrutinise the contours<br />
to find a flaw,<br />
any weakness<br />
in the coupled being<br />
But shaved off this soot<br />
and washed in acidic wine<br />
togetherness gleamed<br />
a brilliant gold.<br />
They weren’t don’t yet<br />
Held with loving hands<br />
to be hammered again<br />
A distinctive design<br />
was given their brass.<br />
It’s ordeal by fire<br />
and brazen forging<br />
of zinc and copper –<br />
A dark shadow<br />
within<br />
that yellow-golden shine.
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