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Rust's a Must, by T.R.B. Watson:
""" Mighty ships upon the ocean
Suffer from severe corrosion
Even those that stay at dockside
Are rapidly becoming oxide.
Alas, that piling in the sea
Is mostly FE2O3
And when the ocean meets the shore,
You'll find there's FE3O4.
'Cause when the wind is salt and gusty
Things are getting awful rusty
We can measure it, we can test it
We can halt it or arrest it
We can gather it and weigh it
We can coat it, we can spray it
We can examine and dissect it
We can cathodically protect it
We can pick it up and drop it
But heaven knows, we'll never stop it.
So here's to rust: No doubt about it,
Most of us would starve without it. """