Love
A train
From Underneath the Bough (1898)
Love
A train
That traverses Europe's central plain! —
Thousands of miles through the moulded furrows
Twinkling in sunset; as night grows brown
A Power comes down,
Stretches its wings on the infinite plain,
Strains to the earth: one bows to its reign,
And prays and prays through the thousand furrows
For a heart subdued
To the heart of that infinite solitude.
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Codex Note
The Fifth Book of Songs
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MLA
Field, Michael. “A train.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/110/.
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Field, Michael. “A train.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/field_m/110/.
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